Look After

You've planned for your retirement.
Who's planning for theirs?

Every family has someone who can't manage their own finances alone — a child with special needs, an aging parent, a sibling after a sudden diagnosis. WiseNest is the only retirement tool that plans for all of them, together.

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The gap most planning tools ignore

You've built a plan for your retirement.
What happens to theirs?

Most financial tools plan for a single person, or a couple. They stop there. But millions of American families look after someone — a child with special needs, an elder parent, a sibling after an accident — and no tool has ever planned for that reality.

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Your child with special needs

They'll need financial support long after your retirement. What happens when you're no longer here to provide it? WiseNest models special needs trust income, government benefit preservation, and long-term care costs — across a lifetime, not just yours.

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Your aging parent

She managed her own finances for 70 years. But after her stroke, she asked you to help. WiseNest's Look-After Arrangement lets you step in formally, with her consent, without a court order — and with full visibility for the whole family.

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You, if something happens

You've never thought about what happens to your plan if you can't manage it yourself. WiseNest lets you designate a trusted steward now, with dual-control safeguards — so your wishes are clear before anyone has to guess.

I thought retirement planning was for me. WiseNest made me realize it was really for my daughter.

— Elena V., WiseNest Familia member, Phoenix AZ (Illustrative example)
Look-After Arrangements

Designed for dignity.
Built with trust.

A Look-After Arrangement lets one family member formally help manage another's plan — with consent, transparency, and the whole family watching.

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The steward is named

One family member — the steward — is named to look after another. You set the scope: full plan access, read-only, or specific sections only. A second steward can be added for dual-control on major decisions.

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The subject confirms

If the person being looked after can provide consent, WiseNest asks them to confirm. If they can't, the arrangement is noted as caregiver-initiated — and visible to the whole family. Nothing is hidden.

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The family watches

Every Look-After Arrangement is visible to all Familia members. The audit trail shows every action the steward takes. Any family member can file a dispute — which immediately pauses all steward activity and notifies everyone.

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The arrangement ends cleanly

When it's time to end the arrangement — recovery, transition to legal guardianship, or natural conclusion — WiseNest makes it one step. The steward is notified, the plan returns to its owner, and the record stays.

What Look-After includes
Dual steward support
Two stewards must agree on major financial actions — preventing unilateral decisions
Full audit trail
Every steward action is time-stamped and visible to all Familia members
Scope control
Grant read-only or full access — by section or the whole plan
Dispute resolution
Any family member can pause steward activity immediately — no court required
Integrated into the family plan
Look-After projections roll into the overall household plan — so everyone can see the full picture

Look-After Arrangements are not legal guardianship, conservatorship, or power of attorney. For legal protections, consult a qualified elder-law attorney. WiseNest provides financial planning tools only.

For special needs families

The numbers your plan must include — and most tools don't.

If you're planning for a child with special needs, the math is different. Your projection has to survive your death — not stop at it. WiseNest runs the numbers other tools refuse to show you.

Special Needs Trust income projection
Model trust distributions across your child's projected lifetime — how long will the money last, and what Social Security benefits integrate with it?
Government benefit preservation
SSI and Medicaid have strict asset limits. WiseNest flags when an inheritance or trust distribution would trigger disqualification — before it happens.
Long-term care cost arc
From supported living to residential care — model a 40-year care cost progression in today's dollars, inflated forward, integrated with your survivor income plan.
Survivor income replacement
What happens to your child's care funding if you die first — or your spouse does? WiseNest shows the income cliff and models how life insurance bridges it.
Why we built this

Every retirement projection I ran stopped at my death. But I have twins — one of whom has special needs. My plan can't stop when I do. His has to keep going.

— Rich, Founder & CEO, WiseNest

Rich built WiseNest because every tool he tried assumed he was planning alone, for himself, until a specific age. The Look-After feature came directly from his family's experience — as did the special-needs trust modeling, the survivor income replacement projections, and the decision to treat multi-generational care as a first-class planning concept, not an edge case.

Families who finally feel ready.

Special needs family

My daughter gets SSI. I was terrified that a trust would disqualify her. WiseNest showed me exactly how a properly structured SNT works with her benefits — and how much I need to fund it.

Diana H.
Sacramento, CA · Familia tier
Illustrative example
Aging parent care

My mom handed me her bank card after her fall and said 'take care of it.' I needed something more formal — something the whole family could see. The Look-After arrangement was exactly what we needed.

Marco R.
Chicago, IL · Familia tier
Illustrative example
Planning ahead

My husband and I set up reciprocal Look-After arrangements before his surgery. If something had gone wrong, I would have had everything I needed to keep the plan going — without lawyers, without courts.

Priya N.
Seattle, WA · Familia tier
Illustrative example
Available in Familia

Look After is part of
the Familia plan.

The Familia plan is built for families that look after each other. Five full seats, each with their own plan — all connected, all visible to those who should see them.

$19/mo
$149 billed annually
5
full seats included
+2
extra seats at $5/mo each

Your plan doesn't end
when you do.

See how WiseNest plans for the whole family — including the people you'll be looking after for decades to come.