Benefits Of Life Insurance
Posted by admin | Posted in Life Insurance | Posted on 14-08-2009
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One never knows when he or she may expire; life is merely hanging on a breath. Regardless of the number of dreams and plans we may have for our self or our family, they may just shatter with the blink of an eye. One does not have to be 100 year old to die; in fact, one may expire at any age; young or old. In such uncertainty, a life insurance provides security for you and your family. It helps one to retain the dreams of his or her family even after he or she is no more. A life insurance acts as a caretaker and guardian of the dreams of your dear and nears ones when you are physically not there to do it. You will be giving financial security to your family and in turn, securing their entire life to follow.
Do you know that the life insurance not only protects you but also you whole family? Yes this is right! In case of premature death you will be given this benefit. It is strange but many people are not familiar with the benefits of life insurances. For this reason, they abstain from getting them as well. As anything can happen to you at anytime, getting a life insurance allows you to have access to financial aid when and if required.
In order to get the maximum benefit from life insurances, you should seek guidance from an insurance expert. You need to explore different kinds of life insurance policies before settling for one. There are many police s including joint-life insurance, whole-life insurance and pension-life insurance. The purpose of all these life insurance policies is to provide you with financial aid in case of emergencies.
There are endless benefits of life insurance, but here we have jotted down some of the most important ones.
1. Firstly, a life insurance allows you to provide financial society to your family in case you cease to be.
2. Besides the money pertaining to estate settlements, you life insurance will help you to pay the estate taxes as well. After 9 months of ones death, the Federal Estate Taxes become liable.
3. Life insurance facilitates the estate owner in case he has not been able to build up many some worthwhile assets for his family.
4. A life insurance also proffers allocating assets equally between the kids of your family.
5. You can secure the future of you kids by having a life insurance. They will get financial aid to continue their studies and carry out other affairs of their life without being a burden on others.
6. This policy is also very important if you have a home mortgage. You can pass family residence to your kids or your spouse and set them free from mortgages for which you need to have this policy. Life insurance policy also helps one to restore charitable gifts.
So wait no more and get a life insurance to secure the future of your loved ones.
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Can a life insurance company cancel a policy within the first two years of inception if suicide is suspected?My friend has a term life insurance policy that is less than 2 years old. She entered the hospital recently for a newly diagnosed bipolar disorder and had admitted to thoughts of suicide. Within 2 months of her stay and diagnosis, her term life insurance policy was canceled by the insurance company for reasons of risk. Can they legally do this? I read the policy, but am unclear whether they have the right to do this. Thanks.
Despite some of the snark, "InsuranceAgent" makes a good point. Leaving your life insurance to a Trust will ensure that the money is there for the long haul.
As for her "No concept of money," can you get her to take a book keeping class? Or perhaps give her some money to put in the Stock Market. If she loses it all, that might shcok her money sense a bit.
As another option, I suggest playing (there are groups that meet for free, or you can buy the game board yourself) Cashflow 101. This game is kind of like Monopoly, but much more advanced. It deals a lot with How to Handle your Money. It was designed as a tool to teach investing, but it is very useful to get people to recognize their money for what it is.
If the carrier goes bankrupt, the policy gets transferred to another insurance company licensed to do business in your state. It happens ALL THE TIME, companies going out of business and policies being transferred.
Yep, that "adjustment" happens, and if the policy is actually not whole life, but a different kind of policy, it's going to start costing every year as the investment returns won't be enough to pay the premium every year. I'd suggest that the policy is not "paid up".
If you leave the procedes to a minor, exactly in their name, then their guardian, whoever it is, gets access to the funds. So yes, your ex would get access to the money. Worse, if HE then dies, and the child is adopted out, THOSE people get the money.
What you need to do is set up a trust – or leave the money "in trust" to your son, and name a bank or your mother or your cousin or your neighbor as "trustee" for the funds.
You cannot assign an executor via a beneficiary clause in a policy. The executor has to be named in a will.
Your son will not have a lack of legal guardianship for long, if you should kick off. His natural father would get him first, then any other relative that asked for him, or a foster parent, or adoptive parent.
Your funeral will cost, what, $6,000? How much is the policy for? If it's for $10,000, then you're not talking about enough money to matter. If it's for $100,000, leave it all to your son, and don't worry about the funeral – your estate can pay for that, by selling all your assets – your car, your furniture, your computer, etc.
You really need to sit down with a local lawyer to draw things up, but I was in your exact shoes, and left the money to my mother, knowing that she'd bury me, and wouldn't misspend the money.
If your friend doesn't want the younger estranged wife to gain anything by his death, then he quickly needs to change the beneficiary of his policy.
But the two policies will be separate. There would be no connection between the company's health policy and what they offered in group life insurance.
What likely happened is that she is still named as the beneficiary on the employee's group health plan.
Regardless of whether the estranged wife opts out of health benefits, she could easily still be listed as the life insurance beneficiary and will get all that money upon the employee's death.
Your friend needs to change beneficiaries right away.
i don[t think so. Most of the employee plans are just term insurance. It is provided only while they are an employee. Now, don't give up just yet, i would call and check with the hr department for the state.
No. You may be. Life insurance payouts to the beneficiary (you) are not taxable. However, gifts in excess of $12,000 per year require gift taxes from the giver (not the recipient). Makes no difference that you acquired the money from life insurance proceeds.
Sort of.
Here's the scoop – debts that accumulate from one spouse during a marriage, in most states, are owed by BOTH spouses. So if one dies, the debt doesn't go away.
The life insurance is going to pay out to ONLY the beneficiary – if it's the estate, then all his debts will have to get paid out of it, before any leftover is distributed. If it's a person, then that person gets the money. But once that person gets the money, it's THEIRS. And any debt actions – such as bank account attachments – can attach any of their money.
So, the BEST way to protect, is to 1. pay off the debts that occurred during the marriage 2. possibly you'll need to pay off the prior debts, depending on the property laws of your state and 3. leave the money to an individual, not an estate, or use it to set up a trust and pay out a monthly payment instead of a lump sum.
You should probably sit down with an estate lawyer on this issue, for state-specific answers.
Or pick you own? It will cost you much more if you do. Usually, with benefits, the company picks up part of the tab and you pick up the remainder. If you buy insurance on your own, because you're an individual rather than a company (with xxx number of employees), it will cost more.
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You were lucky you even had supplemental life insurance benefits to begin with.
Most employers would have bounced you out of their system upon your retirement.
You also could have possibly made some more income by buying a disability insurance policy and could have put off being 'forced into retirement' by allowing the disability policy to pay your income until you would have reached a better retirement age.
Those policies are even cheaper than supplemental life policies. And, since the risk of becoming disabled is far higher than dying early….they make more sense.