Helping your family settle your estate

The last thing you want your loved ones worrying about is tracking down records of assets, accounts, policies, liabilities, legal contracts, and other documents required to settle your estate.

The Family Inventory checklist gathers all the necessary documents and details in one place to help ensure all assets are accounted for and considered, and that your loved ones are taken care of. In particular, the checklist will help your beneficiaries:

  • Locate necessary documents

  • Identify professional advisors

  • Estimate the value of personal assets

  • Consolidate a record of personal and business investments

  • Itemize real estate, life insurance and pension plan information

  • Keep track of the latest Wills and Powers of Attorney

Family inventory checklist

The Family Inventory

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Acting as Executor for someone’s estate

The Executor Toolkit is your guide to settling an estate, explaining the duties involved, and how RBC can assist.

Executor Toolkit

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Everything you need to know about estate planning

Proper estate planning requires careful consideration of many factors: reducing taxes, providing for loved ones, passing on assets in an orderly fashion, creating a charitable legacy and more.

Better understand your choices and make informed decisions with our complimentary estate planning guide.

It will help you understand important topics such as:

  • Having valid and current Wills for all adults in the family

  • Evaluating insurance coverage

  • Understanding ownership structures (i.e. the use of Joint Tenancy agreements)

  • Realizing advanced estate-planning opportunities (i.e. the use of Living Trusts)

  • Planning charitable gifts

Download a free copy of the Estate planning guide.