{"id":1333,"date":"2021-03-24T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fortax.ca\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2021-03-24T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T13:30:25","slug":"designating-a-beneficiary-on-non-registered-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/2021\/03\/24\/designating-a-beneficiary-on-non-registered-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Designating a Beneficiary on Non- Registered Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.page-title-inner {display: none;}\n.entry-header-text-top {display: none;}\ndiv#comments {display: none;}\n.entry-author {display:none;}\nfooter.entry-meta {display: none;}\n.subul {margin:0;list-style:revert;}\n<\/style>\n<h1>Designating a Beneficiary on Non- Registered Assets<\/h1>\n<p>There are a number of planning strategies that can be used to bypass or minimize probate. Below is a common strategy to make your estate as efficient as possible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Designating a Beneficiary on Non-Registered Assets<\/strong><br \/>\nTypically, non-registered assets do not allow a beneficiary designation and automatically go to your estate to be probated. Segregated funds can be used to designate a beneficiary on non-registered assets. Segregated funds are solely sold by life insurance companies. While the MER\u2019s can be a little higher on segregated funds, they offer many of the same investment options that some mutual fund companies offer. Therefore, if non- registered money is invested in a segregated fund, they too will pass probate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designating a Beneficiary on Non- Registered Assets There are a number of planning strategies that can be used to bypass or minimize probate. Below is a common strategy to make your estate as efficient as possible. Designating a Beneficiary on Non-Registered Assets Typically, non-registered assets do not allow a beneficiary designation and automatically go to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fortax-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolvethought.com\/fortax\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}