Tom Quoted by Marketwatch.com on How to Help Protect Your Family

Local CPA, CFP Thomas F. Scanlon of Manchester, CT quoted by Marketwatch.com on December 17, 2021.

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There are a few other considerations you can make to help you feel extra confident in your finances. For example, you might want to consider a level term life insurance policy, which would protect your family if something were to happen to you, said Thomas Scanlon, a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional at Raymond James Financial Services. You should also have a basic estate plan with a will that lists guardian(s) of minor children in the event both parents die — without this, the court decides, and you may not want that.

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