Certainty Estate Planners advises clients to prepare tasks that serve to manage an individual’s asset base in the event of death.

Estate planning tasks

• Making a Will 
• Naming an Executor to oversee the terms of the Will 
• Naming the beneficiaries, who will gain from the estate
• Setting up funeral arrangements 
• Naming suitable guardians to take care of minor children after an individual’s death 
• Looking at various strategies to limit Inheritance Taxes on the estate, such as making charitable donations or setting up trusts for beneficiaries

What are the reasons for Planning one’s Estate? 

• Preserving family wealth
• Providing for the surviving spouse and children
• Funding children or grandchildren’s education
• Leaving their legacy behind to a charitable cause

Estate Planning also gives you peace of mind when it comes to some tough, yet essential questions we all ask ourselves:

• How much inheritance tax will my estate pay?
• What if I need long term care? How will it be funded?
• How will my family pay for my funeral?
• What happens if I fall ill?
• What happens if I am no longer in full mental capacity?

Estate planning has many benefits. You can protect your family financially in many ways, primarily through specialist protection policies, and reducing inheritance tax on your estate. 

It makes sense for you to consider these options at the same time as you are thinking about your Will and Lasting Powers of Attorney because they are interlinked and part of the Estate Planning process. 

Here are just some of the protections that you might like to think about:

• Life assurance which pays a lump sum at your death
• Life assurance which can mitigate your inheritance tax liability
• Serious and critical illness policy which pays if you contract cancer or other serious illnesses
• Inheritance tax mitigation trust, which can be used to protect your home or pension

We will offer you our Professional Advice, our Expertise, whilst sharing our Wealth of Knowledge.

Our Will services are designed to give you peace of mind and make it possible for you to put your affairs in order, to ensure that both your family, loved ones and estate are in order following your death. We will ensure to support and guide you in every step you decide to take.

All our Estate Planning advisers are professional Will Writers, having completed a progressive training plan of accreditation and are registered members of the Society of Will Writers.