Estate Planning
A good estate planning attorney can help you put in place a plan to provide peace of mind during a time of incapacity or after death. At the Van Matre Law Firm, our estate planning attorneys strive to review your specific situation, discuss your goals and priorities, and put together and plan and documents that meet your needs in an efficient but comprehensive manner.
We do not believe that estate planning is one size fits all.
We want to help you consider, make decisions and plan for naming individuals to act for your benefit if needed, naming guardians for minor children, considering options for the distribution of your assets, planning for business succession or estate tax concerns and taking steps to avoid the involvement of the probate court in your personal matters.
We serve clients at all stages of life, with all levels of wealth and a myriad of different concerns and priorities. We are also here to review and make recommendations to update your existing estate plan as your family circumstances, priorities or wealth changes, or as there are changes in the laws.
We’ll guide you along the way
In addition to preparing estate planning documents, we believe it’s important that understand the documents you have signed the plans you have put in place and we are here to help you complete the implementation of your goals by assisting with funding of trusts, changing or updating beneficiary designations, transferring real estate, filing gift tax returns, and other tasks.
Our Estate Planning Attorneys can help with any or all of the following:
- Wills
- Trusts
- Trust Funding
- Business Succession Planning
- Probate Avoidance
- Beneficiary Designations and Non-Probate Transfers
- Financial and Medical Powers of Attorney
- Special Needs Trusts
- Estate and Gift Tax Planning
- Generation Skipping Transfer Tax Planning
- Asset Protection Planning
