Estate Planning Overview

Most of us dislike even thinking about estate planning. Whether it’s our own estate or that of a loved one, it is usually an uncomfortable topic that we would rather avoid. If we’re honest with ourselves, we know that we need to create an estate plan. Refusing to create an estate plan won’t keep us safe. It just guarantees that when we do pass, the distribution of our assets will be a drawn out complicated process that will likely involve the courts and increase the stress on our loved ones. While Stockpile can’t make estate planning more pleasant, it can make the process easier. In this mini series we are going to discuss both sides of estate planning, creating your own estate plan and managing assets left to you by someone else.

In part one we will focus on how using Stockpile simple online inventory solution to track your assets can be a real timesaver when it comes to creating your estate plan. Using Stockpile to keep track of your possessions can provide great benefits now. In addition, you’ll learn how to create records that can ease the burden on your executor and your heirs after you pass. This post will outline the numerous benefits that you can realize by using Stockpile to track your belongings and how they can carry over into your estate planning process.

Part two of this series will take a look at the other side of the equation, ways that Stockpile can help you track items that you have received as part of another’s estate. Being named the executor of someone’s estate is a huge responsibility. Add in to that equation the fact that you have just lost someone who was very close to you and the burden can feel overwhelming. This post will detail the ways that you can use Stockpile simple online inventory solution to track the assets that were assigned to your care and reduce the amount of strife that seems to always accompany the distribution of another’s assets. As an executor you may be expected to see that other loved ones receive personal effects and be able to provide a record of these distributions. Stockpile allows you to easily track items and allows you to produce reports as needed to show that you are following the estate plan.

 

Estate Planning and Management is Easier with Stockpile Simple Online Inventory Solution

Most people cite the desire to make life easier for loved ones after their passing as well as ensuring their wishes are carried out to their specifications as two reasons why they create an estate plan. Estate planning is not a fun topic, but thanks to Stockpile the entire process can be streamlined and made just a little bit more manageable. You can be sure that if you use Stockpile to assist in your planning process you will make things easier for your loved ones and you will make it easier for your executor to carry out your wishes. If you’d like to learn more about how to improve your estate planning and/or management process check back with us for the rest of this series. To start using Stockpile now click here.

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