Funeral Planning Involves Estate Planning, End of Life Planning, Choosing Wills or Living Trusts

When planning a funeral, http://www.funeralresources.com says that more than 75% of families need help with funeral estate planning, financial planning, and/or tax planning, Three of the biggest reasons most families need professional help are:

1. The lack of a proper Estate Plan. Sadly, greater than 70% of all people who die have never even created a Will, also known as a Last Will and Testament..
2. These matters are often extremely difficult to work through shortly after suffering from such an emotional loss.
3. Lack of a funeral preplan, end-of-life plan, Family Record Guide, and/or funeral insurance

By far, the most common questions, concerns and challenges are related to Funeral Estate Planning matters. Some of the Funeral Estate Planning challenges include the lack of a Will or Living Trust, difficulty locating a copy of the original Will or Trust, calculating and properly filing income tax and estate taxes, dealing with probate, difficulty located many important financial documents, collecting life insurance proceeds, family disagreements, and much more.

At http://www.funeralresources.com, you can find a National Directory of Pre-Screened Funeral AND Financial Professionals. There are five fifferent types of Financial Professionals, including Retirement and Financial Advisors, Estate Attorneys, CPAs, Insurance Specialists, and Health Insurance Agents.

By having these professionals in the same National Directory, this serves as a major benefit to many families because these Funeral and Financial Professionals often work and coordinate together to help solve many of these financial questions and concerns.

To locate this National Directory of Pre-Screened Funeral and Financial Professionals, you can simply visit http://www.funeralresources.com.

Christopher P. Hill, Founder

Category:

Education

Tags:

• funeral estate planning
• funeral planning
• end of life planning
• creating an end of life plan
• final expense planning
• estate planning
• estate plan
• Wills versus Trusts
• Last Will and Testament
• Living Trust
• funeral preplan
• end-of-life plan
• Family Record Guide
• financial advisor
• Estate Attorney
• estate taxes
• funeral insurance
• planning a funeral
• burial insurance