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Estate planning

Private file check

Retirement, Special Needs & Succession Preflight

A plan includes retirement accounts, benefits-sensitive beneficiaries, or business interests.

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02

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03

Review each finding

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Documents to include

  1. 01beneficiary forms
  2. 02retirement account records
  3. 03trust documents
  4. 04benefit notices
  5. 05entity agreements/cap table
  6. 06buy-sell and insurance
  7. 07assignments

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  • Required document matching
  • Readability and document quality
  • Confidence in each document type
  • Values that differ across documents
  • Requested facts with supporting pages

Named checks in this Preflight

Automated checks run from extracted, page-linked facts. Source-dependent branches run only when the current rule inputs are attached. Attorney-only items arrive with their evidence for a recorded decision.

3 automated · 2 attorney

  1. 01classify beneficiary and RMD regimeAttorney decision
  2. 02compare trust terms/designationsRuns on the file
  3. 03flag benefits-sensitive distributionsAttorney decision
  4. 04compare entity transfer restrictions and succession fundingRuns on the file
  5. 05identify document conflictsRuns on the file

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