Life Insurance in Estate Planning

March 20, 2018

Life insurance sometimes called liquidity insurance or a clean-up fund is a contract under which one party (the insured and/or owner) makes payments (premiums) to another party (the insurer) for a specified term. In return, the insurer pays the insured's estate or a third party, called the beneficiary, an agreed amount in the event of death or some other occurrence. Life insurance is used for many estate planning purposes, but probably its most valuable purpose is to provide estate liquidity.

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whitePaper | January 3, 2020

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