Estate & Legacy Planning In Southbury, CT

Coordinated estate and legacy strategy for Connecticut families, aligning your wishes with your investment, tax, and insurance plan so your intentions carry through to the next generation.

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Coordinated Planning One advisor aligning your estate, investment, tax, and insurance decisions into a single plan.

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Based In Southbury, CT Serving individuals and families throughout Connecticut.

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Estate And Legacy Planning, Coordinated With Your Whole Financial Picture

True Compass Advisors helps individuals and families in Southbury, Connecticut plan how their wealth will be preserved, protected, and passed on. For families whose situations have grown beyond a single account or a simple will, the estate plan and the investment plan cannot live in separate silos. How your accounts are titled, whom you have named as beneficiaries, and how assets are positioned for taxes all shape what ultimately reaches the people and causes you care about.

Our role is coordination, not legal work. Your wills, trusts, and powers of attorney are drafted by a licensed estate attorney. We make sure the rest of your plan lines up behind those documents, so your beneficiary designations, account structures, and investment strategy carry your intentions through to execution instead of quietly contradicting them.

Why Estate And Legacy Planning Matters

A will names your wishes, but it is the details around it that determine whether those wishes hold up. Small gaps between your documents, your accounts, and your investments can undo years of careful planning.

Beneficiary Forms Override Your Will

Retirement accounts and insurance policies pass by beneficiary designation, not by your will. An outdated form can send assets to the wrong person no matter what your estate documents say. We review these designations alongside your plan.

A Generational Transfer Is Underway

Cerulli Associates projects that roughly $84 trillion in wealth will transfer between generations in the United States through 2045. Families with more to pass on face more decisions about how, when, and to whom.

Taxes And Titling Shape What Heirs Receive

How accounts are titled and where assets are held affect cost basis, income taxes, and settlement. Coordinating these with your CPA and attorney helps more of your estate reach the people you intend.

Plans Drift As Life Changes

Marriages, births, sales of a business, and moves across state lines can each make an old plan out of date. Ongoing coordination means your estate strategy is revisited as your circumstances move.

Estate document preparation and legal or tax questions should be directed to a licensed attorney or tax professional.

What Our Estate And Legacy Planning Coordination Includes

We help the financial side of your estate plan work the way your documents intend. Legal drafting stays with your attorney; we handle the coordination that turns those documents into a plan that functions.

Beneficiary And Titling Review

A careful review of how your accounts are titled and whom you have named as beneficiary, so retirement plans, insurance, and investment accounts pass the way your estate documents intend.

Wealth-Transfer Positioning

Positioning assets across taxable and tax-advantaged accounts with cost basis, income taxes, and settlement in view, coordinated with your CPA and estate attorney.

Charitable And Legacy Goals

Aligning your portfolio with the gifts and causes that matter to you, and working with your professionals on the structures that carry those intentions out.

Trust And Inherited Account Support

Guidance on managing trust-held and inherited investment accounts within an advisory relationship, keeping them aligned with the wishes the documents express.

Family And Next-Generation Conversations

Helping you prepare heirs for what is coming, so the plan you have built is understood by the people it is meant to serve.

Coordination With Your Professionals

Your estate attorney, CPA, and insurance professionals each hold part of the picture. We stay in direct contact with them so a decision in one area is reflected in the others and followed through, keeping your documents, your accounts, and your investment strategy pointed the same way. When you need a specialist you do not yet have, our Partnership of Professionals introduces you to an established network we coordinate with regularly.

Why Families Work With Us

Choosing an advisor to help protect a legacy is a decision about trust and follow-through. Our value comes from a tenured team, an independent structure, and a coordinated approach that treats your estate plan as part of a complete picture rather than a set of separate documents.

We are a Southbury, Connecticut firm with the resources of a national partner, so you get direct, personal relationships alongside the technology and research of an established platform.

Advisory Accounts, Advisory Standard

When we provide ongoing investment advisory services through LPL Financial, a registered investment advisor, we are held to a fiduciary standard of care for that advisory relationship.
Independent, With National Resources

Securities and advisory services are offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. Our independence means no proprietary product requirements.
Coordinated, Not Siloed

We work alongside your estate attorney and CPA so investment, tax, and legacy decisions support one another instead of working on their own.
Rooted On Main Street In Southbury

Our team lives and works in the communities we serve, and we meet with clients face to face at 900 Main Street South.

Jared D. White

Founder & CEO

In financial services since 2005, beginning as an investment analyst at UBS Financial Services and formerly President and Managing Partner of a 60-year-old Southbury firm, focused on coordinating each part of a family's plan.

Harrison Graham, CFP^®

Lead Financial Advisor

A CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER^™ professional holding Series 7 and Series 66 licenses with LPL Financial, guiding clients through retirement saving, education planning, and major life transitions.

Laura Maguire

Senior Investment Analyst

In the financial services industry since 1985, holding Series 7, 63, and 65 registrations with LPL Financial, focused on advisory account monitoring, investment analysis, and model maintenance.

Areas We Serve Across Connecticut

Our office is located at 900 Main Street South, Building 2, Suite 200 in Southbury, Connecticut, in the heart of Heritage Village country. We serve individuals and families throughout western Connecticut and statewide, including:

Southbury
Woodbury
Middlebury
Oxford
Newtown
Bethel
Danbury
Waterbury
Brookfield
Roxbury
Watertown
Naugatuck

Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Phone: 860-955-3535. Toll-free: 833-953-7053. We also continue to work with longtime clients who have relocated, meeting by phone or video, subject to state registration requirements.

Request A Consultation With A True Compass Advisor

If you want your estate wishes and your financial plan to work together, we would welcome a conversation. We will listen to your goals for your family and your legacy, review how your accounts and beneficiaries are set up today, and explain how we would coordinate with your other professionals. When you call our office, you reach a person, not a machine.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is estate and legacy planning?

Estate and legacy planning is the process of organizing how your assets are titled, managed, and eventually transferred, and how your wishes for family, charity, and future generations are carried out. At True Compass Advisors this is delivered as coordination: we align your investment accounts, beneficiary designations, and overall financial plan with the estate documents your attorney drafts, so the pieces work together. We do not provide legal or tax advice or draft legal documents.

Does True Compass Advisors write wills or trusts?

No. Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and other estate documents are prepared by a licensed estate attorney. Our role is to coordinate with your attorney and CPA so that account titling, beneficiary designations, and your investment strategy reflect the plan those documents put in place. If you do not have an estate attorney, our Strategic Relationships network can connect you with professionals we coordinate with regularly.

How does estate planning connect to my investments?

Beneficiary designations, account titling, and how assets are positioned across taxable and tax-advantaged accounts all affect how wealth transfers and what it may cost your heirs. We review these alongside your estate documents so your portfolio and your estate plan point in the same direction rather than working against each other.

Do you work with my attorney and CPA?

Yes. We work directly with your estate attorney, CPA, and insurance professionals so that decisions in one area are reflected in the others and carried through to execution. Coordinating these relationships is central to how we serve families planning across generations.

What areas do you serve?

We serve clients from our Southbury, Connecticut office at 900 Main Street South, including Woodbury, Middlebury, Oxford, Newtown, Bethel, Danbury, Waterbury, Brookfield, Roxbury, Watertown, and Naugatuck, and clients across Connecticut. We also work with clients in other states by phone or video, subject to state registration requirements.

How do I get started?

Start with an introductory conversation by calling 860-955-3535 or requesting a consultation on this page. In a first meeting we listen to your goals for your family and your legacy, review how your accounts and beneficiaries are currently set up, and explain how we would coordinate with your other professionals. There is no obligation.

Estate & Legacy Planning