What is good life insurance for young parents?

If you have young children you may want to consider your long and short term needs for life insurance.

Permanent life insurance can provide for your final expenses and protect you for your entire lifetime.

However, if you need more life insurance while your family is growing, and until the kids are on their own, you may want to consider a 20 or 30 year level term life insurance policy for you and your spouse.

Level term offers the lowest rates for li...
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Yes, you can buy multiple life insurance policies.

When you apply for a life insurance policy the application will ask if you own other life insurance, if so, how many life insurance policies and how much total life insurance coverage do you already own?

The insurance company asks to determine if you are over-insured.

They don't want there to be an incentive for you to take your own life in the future. However, life insurance policies usually have a suicide exclusion of 1 or 20 years, depending...
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Yes, you can get life insurance on other people.

There must be insurable interest as defined by economic loss at the demise of the policy insured.

That means, you must suffer some financial loss of the insured person were to die, or you rely on the insured person for some means of financial support.

If no such financial liability can be established the life insurance company will deny the application. Unrelated parties with no business nor personal economic relationship cannot ...

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Yes, you can buy life insurance for your spouse.

In order to buy life insurance you need insurable interest in that person.

Insurable interest means you stand to lose financially if the person dies, or you rely on the person for some means of financial support.

There does exist insurable interest between spouses, so you can buy life insurance on your spouse.

However, you will need your spouse's permission/consent,your spouse's signature on the application, and your spouse may have to answer some ...
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