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Life · Chapter 4 · Key Concepts

Immediate Estate

Definition
Life insurance instantly creates funds for the beneficiary at death — even if only one premium was paid. Chapter 10 calls this the most significant advantage of life insurance.
In plain English
It takes decades to save $500,000 — but a policy creates that estate with the first premium.
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