Legacy Planning

Your legacy is not only what you leave behind; it’s how you live and give while you’re here.

Have you wrestled with the question of how much to leave your heirs?

Our process helps you develop a strategy to prepare your heirs to become great beneficiaries.

Integrating Values and Finance

Who owns your wealth and how does that impact your planning choices?

Do you have a process to define, align and protect your legacies?

L3 Process

Leveraging Legacies for What You Love

1

Prioritize

  • Family
    • Will your success empower your heirs or enable them? 
  • Beliefs
    • What do you own and why? 
  • Business
    • Is your succession plan aligned with your values and goals?
  • Philanthropy
    • Without an intentional strategy, your biggest charity might be Uncle Sam. 
2

Define

  • Your legacy consists of the past, present, and future
    • We have a process to help align, define and protect your legacy
3

Leverage

  • Planning tools that include life insurance help eliminate and redirect taxes to safely increase your legacy

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Common Questions About Legacy Planning

Legacy planning at Ownership Advisors starts from a simple conviction: your legacy is not only what you leave behind — it’s how you live and give while you’re here. The practice integrates values and finance so a family’s wealth serves its deeper purpose across generations.

The firm helps families develop a strategy to prepare heirs to become great beneficiaries — wrestling honestly with questions like “Will your success empower your heirs or enable them?” and how much to leave.

It is Ownership Advisors’ discipline for legacy planning: define your priorities and what your legacy should accomplish, align your family and decision-makers around it, and protect both lifestyles and legacies for generations.

The L3 Process — “Leveraging Legacies for What You Love” — has three steps: Prioritize (family, beliefs, business, and philanthropy), Define (your legacy across past, present, and future, with a process to align, define, and protect it), and Leverage (planning tools, including life insurance, that help eliminate and redirect taxes to safely increase your legacy).

Intentionally. Without a deliberate strategy, your biggest charity might be Uncle Sam. Ownership Advisors helps families redirect taxes toward the people and causes they believe in, so generosity becomes a designed part of the legacy.

As leverage. Properly designed life insurance can help eliminate and redirect taxes, create liquidity, and safely increase what passes to family and philanthropy — the financial engine underneath the values-driven plan.