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Essentials To Planning Your Legacy

Co-Authored by Attorneys:
Robert J. Kulas and Andreas A. Kulas
with Robert Armstrong and Sanford M. Fisch

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Estate planning has rarely received the attention it deserves, and that lack of attention has left many families struggling with a variety of problems when a loved one dies. The truth about estate planning is that there are few things more important for ensuring the wellbeing of your loved ones when you’re gone. One of the biggest challenges confronting most Americans, however, is that this type of planning remains so woefully misunderstood. For most people in the country, estate planning often comes down to three central questions:

  • Which of your heirs receive your belongings when you die?
  • How do those assets get transferred to those heirs?
  • What is the least expensive way to accomplish those transfers?

When estate planning was first evolving, those questions really were at the heart of the only thing that society really cared about when it came to inheritances. As long as there was an efficient way to ensure that heirs received their due inheritances, little else mattered. And, for the most part, such systems worked for many centuries.

Modern society has concerns that extend well beyond simple matters of asset transfers, however. Today’s world is filled with challenges that are far more complex than matters of birthright and inheritance, and modern people have issues that extend beyond tangible property and asset transfers. Today, your legacy includes not just those financial concerns, but non-financial concerns as well.

As a result, those old models for estate planning are less effective than they’ve ever been. Inheritances, taxes, and legal distribution of property are only part of modern estate planning, and cannot always accommodate the new and evolving realities with which modern families must contend.

In Essentials To Planning Your Legacy, you will be introduced to a new way of thinking about estate planning as you discover how modern estate planners are meeting the challenges of a new and more modern legacy planning paradigm. 21st Century estate planning is about more than just wealth. It’s about more than just tax obligations, and who gets Grandma’s favorite antique vase. It’s about all of the things that we as human beings do to pass on our legacy from one generation to the next.

Within the book’s pages, you’ll discover sound advice that can help any individual or family struggling for estate planning answers that work. If you’re currently experiencing frustration and confusion as you try to make sense of your own estate planning efforts, this book can help you learn how to gain control over your own family’s financial destiny. By the time you’re done reading it, you’ll better understand important strategies that can help you to:

  • Better protect your children’s inheritances, especially in situations where they have remarried or are faced with challenges related to a blended family
  • Protect your assets from complications that can arise if your surviving spouse remarries
  • Safeguard your estate against predatory actions from creditors, frivolous lawsuits, and other unforeseen threats
  • Minimize your tax obligation with sound legal options that can protect your assets
  • Ensure that you’re ready to deal with the rising costs of nursing home care, and secure eligibility for important benefits that can help cover those costs.
  • Provide for seamless distribution of important family heirlooms, money, and property to minimize family conflict when you’re gone
  • Secure the care your special needs heir might need, without disrupting his or her access to needed government benefits
  • Name trusted guardians for your minor children to ensure that their wellbeing is secured
  • And much, much more!

Within the pages of Essentials To Planning Your Legacy, the authors explore all of the ways that traditional estate planning models have fallen short, while clearly revealing the ways in which a new and holistic form of estate planning called Legacy Wealth Planning can provide you with the tools and strategies you need to meet your life and after-death goals.

Essentials To Planning Your Legacy can help your family to avoid all of the most common estate planning mistakes that cause so much harm and confusion to American families each and every year. In a world filled with divorce, litigation, bankruptcy, rising nursing home costs and out-of-control medical expenses, you can’t afford to leave anything to chance.

Don’t let your family become just another estate planning statistic. Instead, get the help you need to secure your financial stability and safeguard your family legacy for generations to come. No matter how large or how small your estate might be, Essentials To Planning Your Legacy is the one estate planning book you need to accomplish your legacy goals.

To get your copy of this exciting new estate planning book, please contact our office at 772-778-8481

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"Everyone treated us extremely well.  Robert explained how a trust works and the benefits of having one.  We decided to move forward and complete the process.  He was very kind and knowledgeable.  Julie was also very helpful and very patient with our questions.  We felt very comfortable with this firm handling our affairs.  We would highly recommend this firm to our friends and family."

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Robert Kulas and staff made making a will an easy to understand process. They were very knowledgeable and attentive to my wishes. All my documents were provided in an organized binder which will be a great asset to my family. I would definitely recommend them.

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