Independent Life Insurance Analysis

More Than 50 Years of Life Insurance Experience

Applied to complex existing life insurance decisions. Independent analysis for attorneys, fiduciaries and professional advisors—without product sales or commissions.

Since 1973

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Joe Stefanec, Founder, American West Advisory

Joe Stefanec

Founder

Independent analysis, without product sales or commissions.

Two Practice Areas

Where an Existing Policy Becomes a Complicated Decision

Trustees · Fiduciaries · Estate Planning Counsel

Fiduciary & Trust-Owned Life Insurance

Independent analysis and contemporaneous documentation for trustees, fiduciaries, estate-planning counsel and their professional advisors, supporting prudent oversight of trust-owned life insurance.

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Attorneys · Divorce & Family Law Matters

Life Insurance & Divorce

Independent technical analysis when an existing life insurance policy becomes an asset, obligation or material consideration in a divorce proceeding or settlement.

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How We Work

Three Principles Guide Our Work

Independent

Objective analysis free from product sales or commissions.

Contemporaneous

Documentation created while a decision is being made—not reconstructed years later.

Prudent

Independent analysis designed to support well-documented, defensible decisions about existing life insurance.

Independent Analysis

Contemporaneous Documentation

Supporting Prudent Decisions

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