
A plan to care for your heirs and your goals
Properly prepared trust accounts and thoughtful estate planning are excellent ways to provide for your family, protect your assets and begin defining your legacy.

Estate planning and settlement services
Make estate planning part of your total financial strategy
Effective planning protects your family and your assets and helps your estate move smoothly through the settlement process:
- Enhancing and preserving assets
- Achieving goals through trusts
- Resolving your estate objectively and efficiently, according to your wishes

Trust services
Manage your assets and plan your estate with?a trust
Trusts can help maintain your financial goals if you become incapacitated and can seamlessly transfer your assets to your heirs and other recipients.
We offer a variety of solutions:
- Revocable trusts
- Insurance trusts
- Qualified personal residence trusts
- Intentionally defective grantor trusts
- Grantor retained annuity trusts
- Various charitable trusts
- Many others, depending on your needs

Charitable gifting and philanthropic services
Design a?well-thought-out plan?to benefit both you and the charities of your choice
There are many ways you can spend your money; charitable gifts and philanthropy can be some of the most rewarding. Your BB&T Wealth advisory team can help you:
- Create a charitable gift and philanthropy budget
- Evaluate and implement options for giving:
- Direct gifts from qualified or non-qualified assets
- Endowments
- Charitable trusts
- Foundations
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