Keeping a plan current
A Winning Game Plan
Across the country, families are gathering for Friday night lights, Saturday college rivalries, and Sunday afternoons spent cheering on their favorite teams.
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At our 2017 Annual Client Meeting sessions we discussed our Estate Planners for Life (EPFL) Program™, and how it has grown in the past few years to become exceptionally efficient in creating and maintaining estate plans that really work. If you missed our 2017 Annual Client Meeting please see the description of the Orientation Meeting below. We created the Orientation Meeting to help our EPFL™ Members learn how we can work together to really get the most out of the valuable services we provide. We are encouraging all of our clients to attend an Orientation Meeting this year, no matter how long they have already been a part of the program.
The EPFL Program™ Orientation Meeting is a new addition in 2017 to the educational meetings we provide. It is designed to provide a great "big picture" view of how we work with clients to maintain estate plans that really work! We encourage all of our clients to invite family, loved ones, and any personal or professional "helpers" to attend any of our educational meetings. However, if any of these individuals are only able to attend one of our educational meetings in person this year we highly recommend that they attend an Orientation Meeting! Please see more details below, and register right away if you have not already!
The Estate Planners for Life™ Program is a professional relationship in which we mutually commit to developing, maintaining, and carrying out a plan that will accomplish all of your estate planning goals. The Member Orientation Meeting is where the entire Estate Planners for Life™ Program is explained in detail. In Step One of our relationship, you chose to develop your plan with counseling-oriented planning partners. As a result, we created multiple custom legal documents designed to accomplish your estate planning goals. You are now at the point where we need to efficiently and effectively transition you, and more importantly your family members and helpers, into Step Two of our relationship.
In Step Two of the Three Step Strategy™, you committed yourself and your family to a formal and continuous maintenance and education program. This Meeting is designed so that our new and existing clients, their family members, trustees, health care agents, and helpers can see the big picture of HOW WE WORK TOGETHER in the years to come to create and maintain estate plans that work! You will attend this meeting early in our relationship while you are already highly focused on getting even more education and understanding of how your plan is designed to work. More importantly, we want to educate and integrate your family members and helpers into the Program early in our relationship when they are more likely to be energized and participate.
Keeping a plan current
Across the country, families are gathering for Friday night lights, Saturday college rivalries, and Sunday afternoons spent cheering on their favorite teams.
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Keeping a plan current
One of the biggest misconceptions about estate planning is believing there is such a thing as a finished estate plan. People often think of estate planning like installing a roof: once it is done, you can stop thinking about it.
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Keeping a plan current
After months, or maybe years, of putting it off, you've met with an estate planning attorney, signed your documents, and created a plan to protect your family.
·6 min readThe workbook helps you clarify what you want your plan to accomplish, identify possible gaps, prepare the right people, and decide what to do next, whether this is your first revocable living trust-based estate plan or you are reviewing an old one.
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Estate planning is a process, not an event. Start with a Right Fit Call: a short, no-pressure conversation to see whether we are the right firm for your family, and what a plan that walks alongside you would look like.