Spending my kid's Inheritance? Heck yeah!

I was riding to Bloomington with my youngest daughter last week when we got behind this truck.  Since Katie was driving I had a chance to really look around and I noticed the words on the back and thought "now there's a guy that's going somewhere!"

 

I hope someday to spend my kids inheritance on a really great truck or a hot tub but my wife insists that we will be spending lots on our kids for years to come, and now I have a grandchild on the way which my wife has decided to spend a chunk of our income on ... I may have to just put a kiddie pool in the back of my old pickup and run a hose from the exhaust to the kiddie pool to make the bubbles.  I'm still working on that idea!

 

But seriously, I had a conversation with a woman in her 70's this week and she has $25,000 in an account that she has set aside for her grand kids.  "It's not much, but maybe they'll get some use out of it."  Well with 3 grand kids that means they'll each get $8,333.  That's pretty great, but it's my job to let her know that they'll be taxed on that amount and if the estate owes anyone when she dies the debts will be settled first and they'll only get their eight grand if it's left after the debts are satisfied. 

One of the best things about my job is being able to help people solve problems like this ... I mean this lady has saved twenty five grand to leave behind and at the very least Uncle Sam is going to take 20% ... not cool!  So I showed her how to take that $25,000 and put it in a single premium life policy which gives her heirs $44,000 at her death and all life insurance proceeds are tax free to the beneficiary.  Oh, and one more GREAT thing about life insurance.  It doesn't matter how long the estate is in probate or tied up in courts and such, life insurance is paid directly to the beneficiary within days of a death certificate being issued.

 

So maybe I can get my truck and hot tub without having to duct tape a hose to my exhaust.  Good luck hiding your money from the kids, I'll talk to you soon.

J

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