Retiring can feel like you’ve crossed the finish line. However, it comes with new responsibilities and concerns. There are challenges from inflation to healthcare costs and unintended tax consequences, all of which require careful planning, says the article “Retirement vs. Estate Planning: Do You Really Know How They’re Different?” from Yahoo! finance. Estate planning also requires distributing your wealth to the people you want. The best way to accomplish both is to do them together, so they don’t conflict and create problems for you or your heirs.
Let’s clarify retirement planning first. It’s about setting financial goals to build a secure retirement. This requires thinking about your wants and needs—they’re different, too—and how you’ll pay for your lifestyle when retired. It also requires planning for different scenarios in later stages of life, including moving to a retirement community or paying for long-term care and medical treatments.
There are nine primary parts to a retirement plan:
Next, let’s define estate planning. This is the planning for managing and distributing assets after their death. Its primary goal is to ensure that your wishes are carried out, minimize taxes, and provide for the well-being of loved ones. It also addresses planning for incapacity.
The six common elements of estate plans include a variety of legal and financial strategies, as follows:
Estate planning and retirement planning are intertwined components of strategies to secure your financial well-being throughout your life and to care for loved ones after your passing. An experienced estate planning attorney will help you understand how to coordinate all elements. Reviewing and revising these plans as circumstances and laws change is essential.
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Reference: yahoo! finance (Dec. 19, 2023) “Retirement vs. Estate Planning: Do You Really Know How They’re Different?”
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