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[vc_row top=”20px” bottom=”20px”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”7143″ img_size=”Full” alignment=”center”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Christian Financial Advisors® now offers corporate trustee services through a strategic relationship with Schwab*. You can protect your family’s financial legacy long after you are gone with a personal trust and appoint a corporate trustee for non-biased and professional management.

What Are Some Benefits of Establishing a Personal Trust?

A personal trust can provide a range of benefits. It can possibly reduce estate taxes and provide liquid assets to help pay for them. It creates a structure and a plan for providing for minor children or family members who are unable to handle financial matters wisely. It can provide a child or grandchild’s education or for an elderly relative, as well as charities that you care about.

Using a corporate trustee provides professional management of your personal assets should you become unable to handle them, or after you are gone, and follows your wishes for how you want your assets distributed.

By appointing a corporate trustee, you allow a professional experienced in the complex matters of managing a personal trust to relieve your family or other heirs from having to handle it all. These duties can include:

 

What Are Some Reasons to Consider Appointing a Corporate Trustee?

Many individuals are unable to successfully carry out the role of a trustee, due to the fiduciary responsibilities and legal knowledge required to maintain a trust.

By naming a corporate trustee, your trust will be managed by trust professionals who have knowledge of, and are willing to assume, the fiduciary responsibility of managing a trust. Also, a corporate trustee has a fiduciary responsibility to legally act in your best interests.

Corporate trustees are regulated by state and federal agencies. Also, most courts consider them experts, and they are held to higher standards than a non professional. They follow your trust instructions objectively which, many times, family members are unable to do because of pressure from other family members to bend the rules of the trust.

Call our office at 830-609-6986 for more information about our corporate trustee program and how it can be integrated with a current trust, or with establishing a new trust.

* Trust services provided through Advisors Private Wealth Trust. Advisors Private Wealth Trust is a corporate trustee offering exclusively for advisors who work with Schwab through a strategic relationship with National Advisors Trust Company, FSB. Advisors Private Wealth Trust is a Trust Representative Office of National Advisors Trust Company, FSB (NATC). Schwab and NATC are separate and unaffiliated companies and are not responsible for each other’s policies and services. Information obtained from Schwab, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC https://www.tdameritrade.com[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row top=”10px” bottom=”10px” bg_color=”#163463″][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1495658326310{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;}”]

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[vc_row top=”20px” bottom=”20px”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6155″ img_size=”Full” alignment=”center”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]By Bob Barber

Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Those who plan to leave an inheritance to their family are happy to know that they will be passing on a financial blessing after they are gone. But is an inheritance always a blessing?

Unfortunately, many inheritances are spent nearly overnight. What took parents years of hard work and discipline to earn and save is spent almost as quickly as it is received. Over the years, I have seen inheritances spent on extravagant vacations, new cars, boats, RV’s, and the list goes on. Standards of living are quickly raised under the delusion of new wealth. Then, when the inheritance is exhausted in a short amount of time, the beneficiary is many times in an even worse financial position than before as they try to continue and maintain a new standard of living that is impossible to fund.

A Corporate Trustee is a possible solution for someone who wants to bless their family members with an inheritance, but they want to make sure it is used according to their predetermined guidelines to ensure wise use by their beneficiary. We now offer these services for our clients through Schwab at very reasonable fees. To find out more, contact the office at 830-609-6986.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row top=”10px” bottom=”10px” bg_color=”#163463″][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1475772510925{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 5px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;}”]

Check out other articles from our October 2016 Newsletter

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Is A Financial Crisis Imminent?

[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”6112″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”/2016/10/06/is-a-financial-crisis-imminent/”][vc_column_text]Is a future financial crisis imminent? See what Bob has to say about “doomsday” and a future investment strategy.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”LEARN MORE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#163463″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” align=”center” i_align=”right” i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-arrow-right” link=”url:%2F2016%2F10%2F06%2Fis-a-financial-crisis-imminent%2F|title:Is%20A%20Financial%20Crisis%20Imminent|” add_icon=”true” button_block=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1475776716410{padding-top: 10px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1475776616536{padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #e8e8e8 !important;}”]

Will Oil Prices Increase Again?

[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”6157″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”/2016/10/06/will-oil-prices-increase-again/”][vc_column_text]Oil has played a large part in our Texas economy. What does the recent oil boom & recession hold for the future?[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”LEARN MORE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#163463″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” align=”center” i_align=”right” i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-arrow-right” link=”url:%2F2016%2F10%2F06%2Fwill-oil-prices-increase-again%2F|title:Will%20Oil%20Prices%20Increase%20Again|” add_icon=”true” button_block=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1475776632195{padding-top: 10px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1475776541126{padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #e8e8e8 !important;}”]

Corporate Trustees & Estate Planning

[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”6155″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”/2016/10/06/corporate-trustees-and-estate-planning/”][vc_column_text]Is inheritance always a blessing? Learn more about setting up your estate plan efficiently when it comes to your beneficiaries.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”LEARN MORE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#163463″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” align=”center” i_align=”right” i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-arrow-right” link=”url:%2F2016%2F10%2F06%2Fcorporate-trustees-and-estate-planning%2F|title:Corporate%20Trustees%20and%20Estate%20Planning|” add_icon=”true” button_block=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1475776573957{padding-top: 10px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row top=”20px” bottom=”10px”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1475772710345{padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #e8e8e8 !important;}”]

Your Family Legacy. Preserved.

[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”6162″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” link=”/2016/10/06/your-family-legacy-preserved/”][vc_column_text]CIS has collaborated with FamilyArc, an online family data history storage website, in order to better preserve your legacy![/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”LEARN MORE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#163463″ custom_text=”#ffffff” shape=”square” align=”center” i_align=”right” i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-arrow-right” link=”url:%2F2016%2F10%2F06%2Fyour-family-legacy-preserved%2F|title:FamilyArc%20Websites|” add_icon=”true” button_block=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1475772742248{padding-top: 10px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1475772615665{padding-bottom: 10px !important;background-color: #e8e8e8 !important;}”]

Why Being A CIS Client is Pawesome!

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