Estate Planning and Trust Administration:

Creating an estate plan is important in that it allows you to control what happens to your property after you pass. A viable estate plan ensures that assets you have worked hard to establish and collect throughout your lifetime go to those who you wish. If you are getting married, getting divorced, bringing a child into the family, buying a new home or retiring, you should create a new estate plan or update your existing plan.

Our firm can help you to establish an affordable estate plan by drafting a simple will to declare and recognize heirs, a power of attorney to manage your business or financial affairs and health care directives to address medical or end-of-life issues. We can also help you place your assets in a trust to bypass the time and expense of probate, minimize estate taxes, fund a charity, provide for a child with special needs or otherwise control your estate.

Estate Administration and Probate Disputes:

Large responsibility is placed on those who have been appointed as executor's or personal representatives for a loved one's estate. If you are an appointed representative for a loved one who has passed away, our firm will assist you in settling the estate. We are willing to work with you in settling the estate of a loved one and can either offer legal advice as you carry out the duties appointed to you, or we can take on the burdens for you.

We also represent beneficiaries or excluded heirs in will contests over the validity of the deceased's will or the distribution of certain assets. We understand that these unfortunate disputes can tear families apart. We are skilled in negotiating settlements but also skilled advocates who can vigorously assert your interests in court if necessary.