About us
Cox Wealth Management, LLC is an independent wealth management firm. We chose to be regulated as fiduciaries. This means we are legally bound to always put your interest first, a standard recognized by regulated professionals and enforceable by law.

We are “fee-based” advisors, not to be confused with “fee-only”. The difference is we believe having the necessary licenses for acquiring any financial product such as Insurance, Commodities, Stocks, Bonds, Options, Private Placements, Mutual Funds, and Exchange Traded Funds allows us unfettered access to review and select investments based upon your unique needs. As your recognized fiduciary we are trained and licensed to determine if any particular investment meets your needs.
In short, we take care of coordinating all your wealth management needs, so you don’t have to.
Our company was started in 1984, when founder Richard L Cox, Sr. CFP®, CKA® first decided to serve his financial planning clients as an Independent Advisor. Over the years, his leadership has developed Cox Wealth Management, LLC into a firm known for its unique ability to find custom solutions to complex problems for our clients.
Solutions for just about any issue you may face, including a broad range of long-term planning strategies for you, your family, or your business.
We are also honored to serve with your other professional advisors as a critical part of your team. Whether you simply need a single solution or want a team of financial and legal advisors working together, we are here to help bring together all the pieces of your financial life.

Wealth management is not just about managing money. It’s about managing life.
Balancing your time between family, hobbies, business interests, and health may be difficult enough but then there are the complexities of managing investments, planning for retirement, providing for your family through proper estate planning, and protecting both your assets and your family from undue risk. Then pulling it together can leave you exhausted.
It is a difficult balancing act and often can be more laborious than a full-time job, that is why we work with you to lighten your burden.
Our wealth management process delegates to us the financial tasks of your life you do not have the time or inclination to chase. We start with identifying and defining your long-term goals and finish with a plan that provides you with peace of mind. Thereafter we monitor and measure your progress toward reaching your stated goals making adjustments as necessary.
Tax Considerations
Tax planning is designed to keep more of the money you earn. Our strategies for capital gains, income taxes, and estate tax planning assist our clients and their tax advisors to both protect and save more of your wealth.
Let’s face the facts, no one wants to pay taxes. But knowing where and how to apply specific tax strategies can save you money.
We offer tax strategies for our clients in such areas as:
- Income taxes
- Capital gains Taxes.
- Business Tax Planning
- Estate and Gift Taxes
- Tax loss Harvesting
- Using Tax Credits
- Real Estate Depreciation
- Royalty Depletion
Many of our tax strategies, include by example:
- Family Limited Partnerships
- 401K Plans
- Employer Pension Plans
- Deferred Compensation Agreements
- 1031 Exchanges
- Equipment Leasing
- Tax Deferred Investing
- Tax Free Investing
- Charitable Remainer Trusts
- Charitable Lead Trusts
- Family Limited Partnerships
- Revocable, Irrevocable and Testamentary trusts
- Deferred compensation programs
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Wealth Accumulation
Financial threats can come in a variety of directions. Our approach helps you to identify many of them before they become a problem.
Life happens. You can think you have almost every contingency covered, but it’s the little things we don’t know that can hurt us the most.
We provide a risk survey as part of the services we offer our clients. This process is designed to review your situation to determine potential exposure to various risks. After reviewing the information, we begin developing strategies using:
- Life insurance protection, to protect those you love or pay future estate taxes.
- Property and casualty to protect you against financial loss due to an untimely event.
- Umbrella policies to protect your assets against a lawsuit.
- Long-term care policies to give you that secure feeling of knowing you will not be a burden to others.
- Disability insurance to protect your income in the event you can no longer work.
- Estate Equalization and Tax reduction.
- Business Continuation and Succession Planning
- Sale of Real Estate or Business Interests
We can work with your team of professionals to advise on the items that should be considered to make sure the bases are covered.

Generational Planning
Children, Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren can be a blessing.
After working a lifetime and enjoying a successful life our minds turn toward the legacy we leave behind. We are here to help, working together with a team of professionals all focused on designing a well thought out estate plan centered around your goals. Estate Planning services will help you:
- Imagine how your legacy can impact your family, charity, business, or church.
- Working together we design an estate plan to accomplish an effect strategy just for you.
- Discuss and design a passion plan to provide for those you feel are most in need.
- Use Charitable gifting to help you today and your charity tomorrow.
- Leverage your legacy by using a Trust and insurance to multiply what you leave behind.
- Arrange Special Needs Trusts for disabled Children or Grandchildren.
- Design a succession plan to sell a Business or transfer control to the next generation.
- Use our affiliated Trust and Estate Services to ensure the plans we design together are completed.
- Establish a Family Foundation or Donor Adviser Fund
Legacy Trust Administration Services, Inc.
Our sister company can also help provide cash management services, estate settlement, or trust administration services.
The financial chore of paying bills and tracking expenses can become overwhelming especially if you or a loved one can no longer perform the daily tasks.
Through Legacy Trust, we can assist you with cash flow management services that allow you to keep control by summarizing and preparing each item for your approval.
Budget planning and tracking through our cash management services, can provide clients with a partner to assist them with as much support they need, such as:
- Assisting in the creation of the budget and then managing it without the headaches of paying bills and reconciling accounts.
- Setting and monitoring your financial goals, such as college education, purchasing a home, vacations, business purchase, or retirement.
- Preparing reports to use in filing tax returns.
- Assistance in bill paying when your health does not allow.
- Accounting and settling your estate for your loved ones.
- Administration of personal trusts
- Business accounting and reporting
- Assisting in the preparation of tax returns
We work closely with your other professionals to ensure your cash management reporting is working together with your overall financial plan.
Please refer to our Securities and Exchange Commission Disclosure Brochure for full information on what services our broker dealer partners and other affiliated companies may provide.
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