Our "Virtual Estate Planning System" is an on-line, browser-based estate
planning interview and assembly process. Our exclusive system permits you to offer
to your clients, whether they get to your website directly from you, by referral
or by an internet marketing campaign, a "context sensitive" interview. This process
asks only the relevant questions about the client's estate planning requirements
based on the client's answers to the prior questions (just as if the client were
sitting across the desk from you). This detailed interview process acts as a substitute
for the normal preliminary interviews required to prepare a custom estate plan and
the software, utilizing its built-in "fuzzy logic", automatically creates a customized,
state-specific Trust or Will Package for the client without any input from you.
The custom documents which are generated have the completeness and attention to
detail as if they had been drafted by the estate planning department of a major
law firm (utilizing the same templates which we have developed for and market to
estate planning attorneys through-out the United States). During the interview,
your client can actually see a "preview" of the documents being prepared for him/her/them.
When the client has completed the interview, you and/or your staff have the opportunity
to review the answers (e.g., for completeness, spelling, capitalization, etc.),
make any necessary changes and then download the entire Estate Planning package, completely
formatted, to any computer for final processing. As a result, with only a few minutes of review time, you are able to generate
a complete state-specific estate plan incorporating either a "stand-alone" Will
or a fully funded revocable living trust (including the "pour-over" Will). Both
types of plan include the durable power of attorney, the actual state statutory authorized health care powers (incorporating
a "living will") and the burial instructions (and for a trust, the transfer documents including the deeds). You have the option to let the client select the type of plan or to default the interview to just one selection (e.g., a Living Trust package only). Whichever plan is selected, it is completed with the
minimum time commitment and permits you to market the estate planning to your clients
and potential clients at a greatly reduced price as compared to the traditional
"brick and mortar" law firm. Each screen of the interview has extensive "help" resources; however, unlike the
"do-it-yourself" estate planning websites, you can offer the client the opportunity
to ask questions of and have their answers/documents reviewed by an estate planning
attorney who is knowledgeable in the unique aspects of your state's law affecting
their estate planning (including the formalities of execution).
The following are just some of the important aspects of this system:
- Reduce the inconvenience to your client (especially those who work) of multiple
visits to your office; in fact, the system gives you the option to create a letter of instructions for execution and implementation to be sent with the assembled Estate Planning package to your client (which means they
may never even require an office visit);
- Greatly reduce your time commitment in preparing and implementing the Estate Planning
package (the client actually "does the work"). Pass some of this saving on to your
client to make your estate planning services more affordable and competitive;
- Confidently provide quality estate planning to your client(s), whether single, married
but creating an individual plan, married preparing a joint plan, or a non-traditional
couple preparing a joint plan, with an estate less than $100,000 to greater than
$10,000,000 even if you are not an estate planning specialist;
- The software is immediately updated for any Federal and/or State law changes;
- The generated Estate Planning package is complete and all-inclusive
click here for a list of the included documents;
- The software provides your client with all distribution options
click here for a list of the included options;
- The software gives your client separate input screens to prepare all of the transfer
documents including state-specific deeds;
- The software works with any existing website;
- To your client, the entire process appears to be on your website;
- Although currently requiring Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the software will soon
be "cross-plaftform" (i.e., it will run in Firefox, Safari, etc.);
- The interview starts with a branded "landing page" including your logo;
- The included correspondence uses your letterhead;
- Your client's password protected answers are stored on our secured server for future access (and for easy integration
with our "stand-alone" software);
- You also have a "hard-copy" client questionnaire keyed to the interview to give
to your clients who do not have computer access or who require additional "hand-holding"
(i.e., you or your staff can easily complete the interview for the client from the
completed questionnaire);
- You receive email notification when the client registers for the interview;
- The registration information can be posted to your CRM software for automatic follow-up;
- The client can return to the interview as many times as necessary to complete the
requested information;
- Upon completion, the client is directed to a page on your site which can permit
redirection to any other page (e.g., a credit card processing form). The completion
page is "keyed" to the type of Estate Planning package completed (e.g., an individual
or a couple; a Will Package or a Trust Package) so any redirect can incorporate
this information;
- Upon completion by the client, you receive an email notification with a link to
the client's interview answer file;
- You have an administration interface which gives you full management over your client's
files from any computer including deletion, review of the answer file and download
of the Estate Planning package;
- When you access the client's interview, you have access to additional pages not
seen by the client which provides you with the ability to "over-ride" the defaults selected
by the software;
- The completed plan can be signed in your office or, if you wish, the software will
prepare a letter of instruction for the execution and implementation of the document
(i.e., depending on your marketing strategy, you can be as "hands-on" or as totally
"virtual" as you wish); and,
- You only pay for the initial download of each client's completed Estate Planning package with unlimited access for the review of the interview and for limited subsequentun downloads of the documents, including restatements
click here for pricing information.
To see the system "in action", please click on "Register Now" button below and proceed
through the interview as if you were the client; when you have completed the interview,
you can access your answers through the administrative interface and actually download
the completed Estate Planning package to your computer.