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The Important Role of Life Insurance

There are certain things that life insurance does better than any other product.  When there is a need for cash at the moment of death there is no better way to provide it.  

Life insurance is a great way for young parents to create an estate.  They can provide for the future needs of their children in a way that would be impossible without life insurance.

Life insurance can provide estate liquidity.  When a person dies often their income stops.  Their death cuts off the family income just at a time when financial demands increase following the death of the bread winner.  A life insurance program can provide the needed liquidity to allow the family to stay in the family home where it might otherwise need to be sold to meet a sudden increase in expeses coupled with a sudden loss of income.

Life insurance can help pay estate taxes that may be due a few months after the date of death.