Our firm handles legal matters in the following areas of practice:
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Estate Planning:
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Living Trusts
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Estate Tax Shelters
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Probate Avoidance
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Last Wills and Testaments
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Pour-over Wills
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Powers of Appointment & their Execution
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Complex Distribution Plans
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Specialty Trusts with Continuation Clauses (Protect your loved-ones long after you've passed!)
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Advance-Health Care Directives
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Durable Powers of Attorney for Healthcare & Asset Management whether Immediate or in the Event of Incapacity (Springing)
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Immediate Gifts
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Property Title Transfers of Real Estate, Business and Partnership Interests, Royalties, & other Intangibles
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Certificates of Trust Existence and Authority
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Trust Certificates
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Affidavits of Death
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Affidavits of Domicile & Declaration Regarding Small Estates
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Will Contests, Estate Disputes, & Changes:
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Contestation
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Division of Trust Estates
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Trust Severance
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Amendments to Trust
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Resignation of Trustee
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Acceptance of Successor
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Affidavits of Change of Trustee
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Elder Care & Care for the Disabled:
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Proper care of the family estate through a Living Trust, or of the person and the estate through the Power of Attorney process, or with court supervision by the more formal creation of a Conservatorship, or a Special Needs Trust.
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Probate, Trust, & Small Estate Distribution:
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Experienced, quick & efficient Probates
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Trust Distributions & Small Estate Administrations with professional liquidations and Preliminary Distributions when needed. We guide you through each step of the Estate Distribution Process.
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