Term life, mortgage protection, living benefits and estate-liquidity planning for Highland Park and University Park households - from an advisor headquartered minutes away.
Last reviewed July 2026 by Dev Gaymes, Licensed Insurance Advisor · Editorial policy
Dev Gaymes is a licensed life insurance agent and independent broker serving the Park Cities - an advisor appointed with 30+ A-rated carriers rather than a captive agent tied to one company.
The Park Cities - the Town of Highland Park and the City of University Park - sit just north of downtown Dallas around SMU and Highland Park Village. It's one of the most affluent enclaves in Texas, and the planning needs here look different from a typical policy: estate-tax liquidity, business succession, tax-advantaged accumulation, and legacy transfer matter as much as income replacement. DG Life Group is headquartered at 6060 N Central Expy Ste 500, Dallas, TX 75206, and works with Park Cities families as a fully independent broker with access to 30+ A-rated carriers.
Together, Highland Park and University Park form the Park Cities, an independent enclave inside Dallas with its own municipalities and the highly rated Highland Park ISD.
Dallas Country Club, Highland Park Village, Armstrong & Bradfield attendance zones. Multi-generational wealth and legacy-planning needs.
Home to SMU and Snider Plaza. Professionals, physicians, and business owners planning for family and future.
We also serve the neighboring high-net-worth corridors of Preston Hollow, Bluffview, Devonshire, and Greenway Parks.
A Park Cities address does not change what most families need first. Estate planning matters here, and the sections below cover it - but it is not where the planning starts.
A family with school-age children and a mortgage on a $2M home has an ordinary problem at an unusual scale: if the earning parent dies, the income stops and the mortgage does not. Level term is the most cost-efficient answer to that, and it is cheap relative to the sums involved.
On mortgage protection products specifically: the declining-benefit version paid to the lender is generally worse value than level term at the same face amount. Level term pays your beneficiary, holds its full value, and lets the family choose whether paying off the house is the right move - the full comparison.
Once the term foundation is in place, a larger balance sheet opens up what life insurance can additionally do. Here's where Park Cities families most often use it:
Cover a potential federal estate-tax bill without forcing a sale of a home, business, or illiquid assets.
Tax-advantaged accumulation with market-linked upside and downside protection. See our IUL guide →
Access the death benefit during a chronic or critical illness. Learn how →
Buy-sell funding and key-person coverage for owners and partners. Advanced markets →
Efficient wealth transfer to the next generation with survivorship policies.
Protect the estate from care costs. Advance planning →
Wealth in the Park Cities tends to be concentrated in two places that are hard to turn into cash quickly: the house, and a closely held business or professional practice. That is fine while everyone is alive. It becomes a genuine problem at death.
If an estate owes tax and the assets are a home on Beverly Drive, an interest in a firm, and a retirement account, the family has three uncomfortable options: sell the house under time pressure, liquidate the business interest at whatever a forced sale brings, or drain retirement accounts and trigger income tax on the way out.
Survivorship (second-to-die) coverage. A single policy on two lives that pays when the second person dies - which is usually when the estate tax is actually due, because transfers to a surviving spouse are generally deferred. Because it insures two lives, pricing is typically lower than two individual policies, and it can sometimes be issued when one spouse would be difficult to insure alone.
Ownership by an irrevocable trust. A policy you own personally is generally part of your taxable estate. The same policy owned by an ILIT, structured and administered correctly, generally is not. The difference is entirely in the ownership and the paperwork - and it is your attorney's work, not ours. More on ILITs and advanced structures.
Equalising an inheritance. Where one child will take over a business or keep the house and another will not, insurance can fund the difference without forcing a sale or an awkward co-ownership arrangement.
Plenty of Park Cities households are comfortably under the federal exemption and hold enough liquid assets that nothing needs to be manufactured. If that is your situation, the term coverage described above is the whole answer and nothing more elaborate is needed.
We would rather tell you that than sell you a permanent policy you do not need. The estate-liquidity case is real, but it applies to a narrower set of families than the way it is usually marketed suggests.
Yes. We're headquartered at 6060 N Central Expy Ste 500, Dallas, TX 75206, minutes from the Park Cities, and work with 75205 and 75225 households on life insurance, IUL, living benefits, and long-term care planning.
Permanent coverage sized for estate-tax liquidity, IUL for tax-advantaged growth, second-to-die policies for legacy transfer, buy-sell and key-person coverage for owners, and living-benefit riders for illness protection.
Not always - many carriers offer accelerated, no-exam underwriting for qualified applicants, which is convenient for busy professionals who want coverage in place quickly.
Fully independent, with access to 30+ A-rated carriers. Recommendations follow the situation, not a sales target.
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DG Life Group is fully independent, with access to 30+ A-rated carriers. That means the recommendation is built around the family's goals rather than a single company's product shelf.
Most need term first, regardless of net worth. A household with school-age children and a mortgage on a Highland Park or University Park home has an ordinary income-replacement problem at an unusual scale, and level term is the most cost-efficient tool for it. Permanent coverage addresses different needs - estate liquidity, survivorship planning, tax-advantaged accumulation once retirement accounts are fully funded - and is normally layered on top of a term foundation rather than replacing it.
The product marketed specifically as mortgage protection usually has a declining death benefit paid directly to the lender. Level term at the same face amount typically costs less, holds its full value for the entire term, and pays your beneficiary rather than the bank - which lets the family decide whether paying off the house is actually the best use of the money. Park Cities carrying costs continue even with no mortgage payment, so covering the balance alone is rarely enough.
Both terms get used loosely, and the distinction matters. A captive agent represents one insurance company and can only offer that company's products. An independent broker is appointed with many carriers and compares across them. Dev Gaymes is a licensed life insurance agent and independent broker serving the Park Cities, appointed with more than 30 A-rated carriers, which means the recommendation follows your situation rather than one company's product shelf. Because rates are filed with state regulators, your premium is the same either way - what changes is how many carriers can be considered.