Estate Planning
When you are starting and building your career, your family and other major life pursuits, it is often easy to forget about or delay the planning for our assets and family in the event of death, incapacitation, marriage, divorce, re-marriage, adoption and the birth of children. But these matters are important and need to be taken care of.
By tending to your estate and legal needs now, you can ensure that your wealth goes to the heirs of your choice without dispute. You can arrange that you, not the courts, will determine who cares for your children in the event you can longer provide care. You can create a trust that will keep your assets out of the lengthy and costly probate process. And you can arrange for an empowered decision maker who can determine what kind of medical care you receive, and to what extent, in the event of catastrophic injury.
At Scott Law Offices, PLLC, we offer experienced and comprehensive estate planning legal services. Our Attorneys will meet with you to review your estate, explain your legal options, listen to your wishes and draft enforceable
documents that will ensure that your estate wishes will be carried out at the time of your death or incapacitation. Some of our estate planning services includes:
• The creation of trusts
• The drafting of wills
• The creation of durable health care powers of attorney and health care living wills
• The creation of guardianships
Creating a comprehensive estate plan can give you the peace of mind that comes with knowing that the administration of your estate will be carried out according to your wishes. Making plans now can secure your assets, dictate a course for your healthcare at the end of life and address the distribution of your assets.
Engaging in estate planning can spare your family from making difficult decisions about your medical care, assets and estate administration, Contact the experienced estate planning attorneys at Scott Law Offices for a free initial consultation.
We handle the full spectrum of estate planning matters for our clients, including the following:
• Wills
• Probate of wills
• Power of attorney
• Medical power of attorney
• Living wills
• Codicils to wills
• Health care power of attorney
• Probate and administration of estate
• Will caveats
• Guardianships
Probate and Estate Administration
In addition to estate planning, we help our clients with probate and estate administration. Probate is the legal process by which a person's debts are paid and their assets distributed after their death, Our skilled attorneys have the knowledge and experience to help you resolve your probate and estate administration issues.
Personal Service for Your Estate Planning Needs
Estate planning services at Scott Law Offices include the preparation of wills, trusts, and associated documents. However, effective and sophisticated estate planning involves not only the appropriate disposition of clients' assets and the orderly and cost-effective administration of clients' estates; but also a particular focus upon the reduction of estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes for individuals whose estate assets may be exposed to substantial taxation upon death. After a careful and thorough consultation with our clients, we create estate plans that suit each individual client's goals and unique circumstances in order to maximize the transfer of hard-earned wealth to subsequent generations through the strategic use of estate planning vehicles such as life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, generation-skipping trusts, family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, intentionally "tax defective" grantor trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, charitable trusts and other planning strategies.
The issues and processes involved in estate planning and probate can be confusing and overwhelming for clients. We will take the time necessary to learn about your circumstances and create a comprehensive estate plan that carries out your wishes and protects the interests of your loved ones, Our mission is to develop a close relationship with you as we work diligently to help you achieve your goals.