Technology Helps Create Memories That Last Generations
Add Your Life Lessons to Your Estate Plan
Estate planning typically focuses on passing down assets through wills, trusts, and other estate planning instruments. However, a person is much more than the assets they have accumulated. Your life has been filled with joy, hardships, successes, laughter, and lessons. Have you considered how you will pass along these stories and lessons to future generations?
Estate Planning in the Digital Age
The amazing technological advancements society has experienced in the last several decades have dramatically improved our ability to leave a legacy. Individuals now have the opportunity to leave their loved ones videos, photographs, audio recordings, and other digital memories. Your children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and beyond can hear your voice or watch a video of you long after you have passed away. Technology allows us to bestow advice and wisdom to future generations that may have otherwise been lost to time.
Sharing Your Business Legacy
If you own a business, you know just how much time, effort, and hard work has gone into the business. You have also had the unique opportunity to see your business grow, change, and develop over time. The same technology that can be used to create a personal digital legacy can also be used to create a company legacy. Photographs, videos, and other media can be used to tell the story of how your business was founded and how it grew to be the success it is today. Many business owners worry that their original purpose and vision for their business will eventually fade away. Creating a company legacy in video format allows you to speak directly to future business owners, leaders, employees, and potential buyers. This ensures that they know where your business started, where it is headed, and why it has worth.
Call Us to Learn About Creating a Legacy Using Technology
Estate planning typically deals with how individuals pass down assets to their loved ones. Often, however, the most important assets an individual possesses cannot be valued in dollars and cents. Do not let the wisdom, lessons, and stories you have accumulated over the years die with you. Technology gives us an incredible avenue for preserving these nuggets of wisdom and history and sharing them with future generations.
The Gierach Law Firm offers several programs, including a LifeLessons™ program for individuals who wish to leave a digital legacy to their loved ones. We also offer a Corporate Legacy program that allows business owners to bestow valuable insights, advice, and business history to future generations. To learn more about our specialty programs or for other estate planning needs, call our experienced Naperville estate planning lawyers at 630-228-9413 today.
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