Estate Planning

Resources for Estate Planning

Providing a gift to Children's Care Foundation through your estate plan - often called planned giving - can give you a number of benefits including:

Income tax and estate tax reductions
Life income
Professional management of assets
Current income or retirement resources are not reduced

Planned gifts may be made to the Children's Care Foundation in many ways, often with financial benefits to you and your heirs:

Leaving a specific amount or percentage in your will
Making the Foundation a beneficiary of life insurance or retirement plans
Various plans that provide you with a life income including charitable gift annuities, charitable remainders unitrusts, charitable lead trusts, and irrevocable trusts
Remainder of interest in residences or farms, in which you keep the right to stay on your property as long as you live

The Foundation holds gifts in perpetuity, with only the income from such gifts being used to support children's needs.

When you write or review your will, please consider a charitable bequest to the Children's Care Foundation. Your gift will help provide for the needs of children fo rmany years to come. Ask your attorney to use words such as:

I give, devise, or bequeath to the Children's Care Foundation, A South Dakota Corporation, for its general purposes all (or fraction) of the rest, residue, or remainder of my estate, whether real or personal.

Call the Foundation office at (605) 782-2331 to receive information on how you can help strengthen the mission of Children's Care Hospital and School. Additional resources for financial professionals can be found at http://www.giftlaw.com/.