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Additional Estate Planning Options for Your Family

Estate planning tools help to carry out your wishes and protect your and your family’s financial future. For more than 60 years, Riley Brazas has guided mid-Missouri families through the decisions that safeguard what matters most. From preserving generational wealth, ensuring business succession, avoiding unnecessary taxes, to preserving whatever assets you have, our estate planning attorneys listen to your goals so that we can devise a strategy for you together.

Estate Planning Tools To Protect Your Legacy

There are many ways to structure an estate plan, and understanding each option is essential to making informed decisions. Our attorneys explain every tool in straightforward terms and help you create a plan tailored to your goals, needs, and budget. We assist with both common and more advanced planning options, including:

  • Advanced estate planning: Coordinated plans using creditor-protection trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts (called ILITs), charitable remainder trusts (CRATS or CRUTS), and family limited partnerships (FLPs) help to preserve your family’s wealth. Our attorneys have helped generations of families tackle these issues successfully.
  • Common Sense Solutions: Even for simpler plans or smaller estates, our attorneys can advise you of the benefits and the costs of estate planning options to save you and your family money. Health Care Directives and Powers of Attorney to provide peace of mind that your health is in your control. Durable Powers of Attorney so that you, and not the probate court, can determine who would assist you if you need help handling finances in the future.
  • Probate Avoidance. For many families, a revocable trust is not needed to avoid probate. Our team can help you utilize inexpensive tools like beneficiary deeds or beneficiary deeds of gift, along with Transfer on Death or Pay on Death beneficiaries so that your estate would pass directly to your heirs.

Our attorneys take time to understand your family story and goals, offering practical, personalized recommendations that protect your legacy. We endeavor to find solutions, not surprises.

Begin Protecting Your Family and Assets Today

The estate planning attorneys at Riley Brazas are ready to help you build a plan that provides clarity and peace of mind. Call our Fulton office at 573-416-2612 or email us to schedule a consultation. We will answer your questions and help you take the first step toward securing your family’s future.