Estate Plan Audit Checklist

Not every estate plan that exists is an estate plan that’s working.

Plans go stale. Tax laws change. Clients move, remarry, inherit assets, and acquire property — often without thinking to call their advisor. This estate plan audit checklist gives you a structured way to review what’s in place, flag what’s out of date, and surface planning conversations before they become problems.

Use it alongside the Estate Planning Document Checklist at moments such as: 

• Onboarding a new client
• Responding to a life event
• Tax season
• Changes in regulations
• Scheduled annual reviews

Each section is tagged so you can pull out only the parts that matter for the moment at hand.