Legal Insight

Your will must always lie at the heart of your estate planning. But don’t concentrate solely on the financial wellbeing of your family after you are gone. The personal legacy you leave them is also important. It focuses on your family’s values, history and heritage, supporting your heirs in living their lives to the fullest while preserving and enjoying the material wealth they inherit from you. But how do you create a personal legacy that will last for generations, and how does this fit into your overall estate planning? We share some practical suggestions on how to get started…

“Let’s choose executors and talk of wills.” (William Shakespeare in Richard II) You may have read one of the many

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“The golden rule for the interpretation of testaments is to ascertain the wishes of the testator from the language used.