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  Estate Planning
     
 

The best time to plan your estate is now, while you can – before you need it.

At StanleyCo our consultants will help you organize and plan for the smooth transfer of your assets to your intended successors, maximizing the amount your successors receive while minimizing taxes and related expenses.

StanleyCo’s Estate Planning Team works closely with tax consultants, lawyers, public trustees and custodians providing comprehensive estate planning services which include will writing, custodian, trust protector services, estate tax planning, business succession planning and support services to trustees and executors.

 


For our clients who are owners of privately held businesses, a key part of estate planning focuses on Business Succession Planning. Recognizing competing interests among family members and other stake holders, we will assist you in assessing the advantages and disadvantages of various business succession options, minimizing the negative impacts of a transition, and assuring harmonious long-term family relationships.

If you are currently a StanleyCo client, our one-to-one relationship with you means we are already familiar with your financial information and details regarding your business interests. If you haven't worked with us previously, you will be pleasantly surprised at the valuable benefits of establishing a relationship with StanleyCo.

What is Estate?

Your estate is simply everything you own--your home, properties, bank accounts, investments, businesses, insurance policies, collectibles and personal belongings.

What is estate planning?

Estate planning means the plan for the orderly handling and administration of an estate upon the death of the owner. This usually involves drawing up a will and setting up trusts and insurance, with the intention of minimizing loss to the estate value incurred by administrative expenses & preventing the courts to have control over your assets and decisions.

Estate planning would usually involve writing a will and setting up of trust; Let us explore these estate planning tools in further details:

 

A) Trust

Is a tool used to transfer properties and other assets from the legal owner to his chosen beneficiary by using an intermediary party, called “the Trustee”. It is a legal arrangement in which one person (the settlor) transfers legal title to a trustee (a fiduciary) to manage the property for the benefit of the benefit recipient (beneficiaries).

Asset protection trust, insurance trust, maintenance and education trust are some of the more common types of trust for estate planning purposes.

  • Asset Protection Trust
    A trust established to protect the settlor's assets against those who may attempt to make claims against them such as creditors, former spouse and other third parties.
  • Insurance Trust
    A common form of trust, created during the lifetime of the person who creates the trust that is funded by insurance policies on the life of the trust's creator or by the proceeds of such policies. In other words, a life assurance policy can be absolutely assigned to a trustee (a fiduciary) and create an Insurance Trust instantly in favor of the spouse and/or children named as beneficiary in the policy.
  • Maintenance / Educational Trust
    The purpose of setting up Maintenance / Educational Trust is to provide for the day-to-day needs of the beneficiaries and for the payment of their educational costs.
 

B) Will

Is a written document properly witnessed, providing for the distribution of property owned by the deceased. It is a declaration made in the prescribed form of the intention of a person, with respect to the disposition of his property and other matter which he wishes to take effect on or after his demise.

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