Summit PlannersIs My Child Protected?
For Singapore parents caring for a child with special needs

“When I am gone, who will look after
my special needs child?”

Every parent in your position asks this.
Very few get a real answer.

A free 30-second check shows you 4 gaps that plans often leave open.

30 seconds. No cost, no obligation.
Summit Planners · Working with families since 2000
26 years in estate planning · Works with various MAS-licensed trustees
A mother at home with her adult son

You are the plan.

Right now, you are the carer.
You are the money manager.
You are the one who knows what every sound means.

Every part of it lives in your head.
None of it is written down.

Which one keeps you awake?

“Who will care for my child when I am gone?”
“Will the money actually last their whole life?”
“I do not want my other child to carry this alone.”
“Where will my child live once we are not here?”
“Someone could take advantage of them, or their money.”
“What if I lose my own health first?”

A will answers some of this.
It stops short on the rest.

The four gaps

You wrote a will.
Here is what it cannot do.

Gap 1 · The home gap

Your child needs somewhere to live.
For the rest of their life.

A will can hand over your property.
It cannot keep it for them.

Whoever inherits it can sell it.
Or borrow against it.
Or lose it in a divorce.

The roof is the one thing that has to survive you.

Gap 2 · The sibling gap

Most parents write a will and quietly hope the other child steps up.

That child becomes the carer.
And the money manager.
And the referee.

They rarely say no.
They also rarely say how heavy it is.

There is a name for it. The glass child.
A sibling who feels invisible next to a brother or sister with high needs.

Dr Lim Hong Huay, founder of CaringSG, writing in The Straits Times, 19 August 2026.
Gap 3 · The lifetime gap

A will pays out once.
Your child needs care for decades.

One transfer, on one day.
Then nothing adjusts. Ever.

Care costs change. Health changes. Housing changes.
A single payment cannot respond to any of it.

Gap 4 · The gap before you go

A will only starts working after you die.
Your health may go first.

If it does, your savings pay for your own care.

Whatever you meant to leave your child
may not be there by the time you go.

The years in between are the ones nobody plans for.

What families do instead

The Family Treasure Fund

A single fund that holds what your child will need,
and keeps holding it after you are gone.

It can hold the home.

So your child can stay where they already live.

It pays out in stages.

Monthly, over decades. Not once, on one day.

Professionals run it.

A regulated party follows the rules you wrote. Not a relative doing their best.

It starts while you are here.

It does not wait for a funeral to begin working.

Your other child is freed.

They receive their share. They may not inherit a full-time job as well.

Legally it is a private trust, held with a licensed trust company. We call it a Family Treasure Fund because that is what it does.

A Singapore family home
Who we are

An inheritance and succession specialist.

We plan how families pass on what they own.
We work with law firms, a licensed trust company, private banks and insurers.

The first session is free.
Nothing is sold in that session.
If you decide to go ahead afterwards, we set out every cost in writing first.

Alfred Toh

Alfred Toh

Principal Consultant, Inter-Generational Planner
  • 16+ years in estate planning
  • Chartered Financial Consultant and Associate Estate Planning Practitioner
  • Has built plans for families caring for a loved one with special needs
Social proof

What closing the gaps
looks like

MS
“Our fear was simple. Who takes care of her when we are gone. Her care is now provided for in writing, and we stopped hoarding.”
M S · 50s · only daughter, 18
AF
“I thought the will was the whole plan. It turned out the property was the part I had not solved. Now it is held for him.”
A father, 58 · daughter, 22
Illustrative example.
AM
“I kept telling myself my daughter would look after him. Then I read what that does to her. We fixed it while I am still here to explain it.”
A mother of two · son, 14
Illustrative example.
AW
“My husband died first. Everything landed on me at once. I did not want my son to go through that twice. Someone else holds the plan now.”
A widow, 61 · son, 30
Illustrative example.
AC
“We were told a will was enough. It was not. The property is now held for him. That was the whole worry.”
A couple, 60s · adult son
Illustrative example.
AM
“I was putting away money for him and nothing for us. We ran the number properly. Turns out I was over-saving and still short. We are working on both.”
A mother, 47 · twins, 9
Illustrative example.
AC
“My brother said he would look after him. He meant it. He is also 62. Goodwill is not a plan. Now there is a plan.”
A couple, 55 and 57 · son, 19
Illustrative example.
SM
“I kept waiting until I had more. The gaps do not wait. Starting cost less than I had feared it would.”
A single mother, 52 · daughter, 16
Illustrative example.
AF
“He can be talked into anything on a bad week. A lump sum would have been gone in a year. Now it comes monthly, and someone regulated decides.”
A father, 63 · son, 35
Illustrative example.
Your free check

What your free check shows you

1

Which of the 4 gaps are open in your plan today

2

What your will already covers, and where it stops

3

What families in your exact position set up instead

4

A rough figure for how much your child’s care needs to be funded

It takes 30 seconds.
You read it on the next screen.
We only call if you book a session.

The plan you never wrote down
is still a plan.

It just leaves every decision to someone else.
On the worst week of their life.

30 seconds. No cost, no obligation.