Planning for the future is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your loved ones and secure your legacy. Our experienced team guides you through the complexities of estate planning, from drafting wills and trusts to managing probate and estate administration. We help you address key decisions with care, providing peace of mind that your assets will be managed according to your intentions.
We commonly see inadequate documents prepared by non-lawyer professionals for clients which cannot accomplish what clients need to accomplish in various circumstances that commonly arise. In contrast, we assist clients by hand crafting the following documents using our legal knowledge and experience to ensure that they are robust and can be used effectively when needed.
Powers of Attorney are extremely important and useful estate documents for while you are alive.
They are for your benefit, convenience, and protection. They should not be just a standard one-page document prepared by a non-lawyer that has limited usefulness – we see these often and we have to break the distressing and life altering news to the enquiring client that the document does not give them the power to do what they seek to do. Commonly seen future circumstances should be taken into account when a power of attorney is drafted and we do just that. Powers of attorney can offer flexibility if your partner is no longer able to live with you, such as if they living in a medical care facility. If you wish to sell the jointly owned home, for instance – which is not an uncommon situation that clients find themselves in, in later years, the law would normally require you to hold half of the sale funds in trust for the other owner until they pass away. This means that while they reside in extended care, for instance, you only have access to half of the sale proceeds. This can severely minimize your access to finances and alternate housing. We can craft powers of attorney to grant the trusted attorney special permissions that the parties might find useful.
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This document must be very specific and comprehensive for it to be actually followed in the health care setting, as opposed to a short document that is mass produced by a non-lawyer professional.
