Challenge
One of our clients, a widow, raised four children independently. She created a successful real estate career and retired at 60. However, two of her four adult children had drug and alcohol problems and had difficulty keeping a job. Our client desired to give each child 25% of her estate when she passed away.
SOLUTION
Aurora set up a trust to help protect the two children with dependency problems. We suggested appointing the most responsible child as a trustee for their siblings. In addition, we set up a gift trust to distribute money out of our client’s estate. The trust made distributions in small increments to minimize misspending. We also educated all four children on the power of long-term investing.
RESULTS
We meet with each adult child individually several times per year. One of the children started a monthly investment account.
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