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Consider your time

Consider your time

Planning for the future: Considerations for your time

How will you and your loved ones spend your time?

When your property goes through the probate process, it can be expensive and time-consuming. Many find peace of mind by simplifying their affairs and preventing emotionally taxing tasks from falling to loved ones.

A gift of property to IU can alleviate the burden of upkeep or selling a property now or in the future. Some of the ways to give, like a retained life estate, can allow you to make a charitable impact, receive a charitable tax deduction, and stay in your home for as long as you choose. Your home and personal belongings—whatever you choose to give to IU—will be stewarded by the IU Foundation to benefit the causes close to your heart.

When you consider your time, what matters most?

Spending your time focused on loved ones and meaningful hobbies?
Simplifying your estate?
Making a seamless transition from your home?
Preventing time-consuming, emotional tasks for loved ones?

Let us help you make a plan that you will feel proud of. Learn more about the ways to give property that can help you achieve your goals for the future.

Our wish was to make the estate process easier on our daughters long-term, while still retaining a life estate and remaining in our home. We are comforted knowing the IU Foundation will work with our estate representatives to ensure the personal property in our home finds its way to those designated in our estate plan and that the remainder will be maximized for the academic initiatives we support at IU.
Millard Lesch, JD’67 and Wendy Lesch

Millard and Wendy established a gift using a retained life estate on a vacation home to benefit the Maurer School of Law for generations to come.