For many in St. George, Utah, the red rocks and warm climate represent a hard-earned sanctuary. As a premier retirement destination, our community is a vibrant tapestry of "snowbirds" and retirees. However, this lifestyle often comes with a geographical challenge: while you enjoy the sunshine of Southern Utah, your children and heirs are likely building lives in Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, or all across the country. But true love transcends the distance. While we often express love through visits, texts, emails and calls, there's a deeper, more enduring way to show your love for those near or far, and that is the gift of preparation.
Bridging the Distance Between St. George and Home
Whether it's a healthcare directive needed in an emergency, or the most recent trust document required to purchase, refinance, or reverse mortgage your home, ensuring your estate plan is available and easily accessible in a moment’s notice avoids delay and reduces risk. This foresight allows you or your loved ones immediate access to vital documents from any mobile or electronic device without having to leave home, which saves time and money. While Southern Utah is beautiful, it's not immune to risks including physical disasters such as fires, floods, theft and fraud often leading to destroyed or missing paper originals. A TrustSafe digital vault acts as a bridge between your life in St. George and your loved ones elsewhere in the world, and allows for a level of security that paper cannot match.
The Ultimate Gift is Peace of Mind
Love means being present even when you're physically apart. Peace of mind and security is a gift of love that comes with having an estate plan in place before the most difficult time arrives. This should not be viewed as a legal chore, but as a "lasting letter of love" which provides immediate peace of mind for the planner, and future security for heirs. Equally important is ensuring ease of access to this vital information which spares your loved ones stress and confusion, allowing them to focus on honoring your wishes and your memory rather than searching through your files and records.
Ending the "Document Treasure Hunt"
When a crisis occurs, the last thing a grieving family needs is a "treasure hunt" by searching for your will, trust or other vital financial and estate documents through traditional methods: paper files in a dusty cabinet or a safe with an unknown combination or missing key, or even an unknown/inaccessible safe deposit box. This can force out-of-state heirs to fly in just to search for a single document. Statistics also show that the average person now manages over 100 passwords and dozens of digital accounts. Without a centralized location, executors and trustees can spend up to 12 months simply trying to find and access a deceased loved one's assets. By ensuring ease of access in a TrustSafe Digital Vault, you can replace that chaos with clarity, essentially saying, "I’ve thought of everything so you don’t have to worry, no matter the time or distance between us.”
A Stronger Community Starts at Home
Caring for your neighbor begins with caring for your own home. St. George residents ensure a smooth transition of assets such as real property and locally owned businesses when the documents securing them are readily available and easy to find. This helps support the local economy and community by preventing properties from sitting in legal limbo and ensuring that your intentions are legally recognized and honored without court delays.
Preserving Your Digital Legacy
In this modern world, your estate is more than just a house, your company, and bank accounts. It includes your digital legacy. Without a TrustSafe digital vault to secure these vital estate documents, those assets can be lost forever or become targets for theft, misappropriation and probate court legal battles. Securing your legacy in a TrustSafe Digital Vault preserves your plan and shows your everlasting love.
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Christine Alleman is the CEO of TrustSafe LLC which offers Digital Vaults to individuals and estate planners on behalf of their clients across the United States. TrustSafe vaults protect vital estate documents from becoming lost, stolen, damaged or altered, and allows loved ones to find and access those documents when the time comes. Alleman worked in the legal industry for over 30 years during which she observed how document loss and destruction created problems for families in probate court. TrustSafe allows clients the freedom from worrying about where to store vital estate documents or who to entrust them with, so the plan they create during their life can actually be followed after their life.