- for Single Individuals & Married Couples
- Traditional or Blended Families
- Advanced Planning for Blended Families to retain assets in respective bloodlines
- both Will and Trust planning
- all ancillary Health Care Documents & Powers of Attorney
- Emergency Health Care 3 Minute Access to HIPAA, Health Care Surrogate Designation, & Living Will (e.g., all health care documents faxed directly into emergency room within 3 minutes in the event of a medical emergency)
- 100% protection of Children's Inheritances from their Divorces, Lawsuits, etc.
- 100% alignment of all assets to avoid probate - we do everything to re-title and properly beneficiary-designate all assets to protect the family
- optional yearly Family Care Program™ to maintain proper asset alignment and balancing of trust funded assets, lifetime free updates and changes to plan documents due to law changes or family changes, PLUS lifetime free access to law firm for future questions (all phone calls and emails and in-person meetings are free), PLUS discounted trust administration
- Private Client Portal to view documents, receive encrypted communications, and view progress of estate plan implementation timelines - all with bank-level security encryption
- Free Family Workshops for children/grandchildren, etc. to learn about your estate plan and how it will be administered
- Private Family Annual Webinars with children, friends, family to keep everyone updated on new plan developments
- Private Professional Advisor Annual Webinars with your financial advisors, accountants, trustees to keep all of your professional advisors up-to-date to maintain total coordination of everything
- Annual Client Family Reunion Banquet to celebrate your family, your plan and their future - plus educational update: "What's Happened Since Last Year"
- Proactive Pre-Planning to protect 100% of everything - never worry about future nursing home asset seizure
- Crisis Nursing Home Medicaid qualification
- Prevention of Estate Recovery by Medicaid after Death
- Advanced Family Protection Trust™ to avoid of loss of capital gains step-up-in basis for inheriting children and grandchildren
- Advanced Pour-Back trusts to protect healthy spouses at home
- Advanced Parental Protection Trusts™ to permit parents to remain in their home and avoid nursing home placement
- Advanced Personal Asset Trusts™ to protect children and grandchildren from losing their inheritance to divorces, lawsuits & Medicaid estate recovery
- Private Client Portals to login and review progress with Medicaid filing - with live chat function to answer questions immediately
- Private Nursing Home Administration Portals for nursing home and care professionals to review status of pending cases and applications - with live chat function to answer questions immediately
- Streamlined administration of Probate Estates to limit cost & time delays
- Orderly distribution of trust & estate assets into asset-protected trusts for children and grandchildren
- Preservation of capital gains step-up-in-basis to eliminate capital gains taxes on sale of assets by inheriting beneficiaries
- Weekly Update Letter Reports to Trustees and Beneficiaries to keep everyone continuously informed as to the progress of the estate administration
- Monthly Private Live Webinars for all Trustees and Beneficiaries to review progress, outline next steps, and answer questions
- Private Client Family Listserves - these are email "groups" to which we post periodic email messages as to documents filed, case progression, etc. It is also a means for a trustee, a personal representative or a beneficiary to ask questions of the attorney and to share those questions with the group members of the Listserve.
- Private Client Administration Portals to login and review progress of estate administration, view pleadings, orders & other court filings, view timelines and upcoming filings and distribution schedule
- Private Beneficiary Portals to login and review progress of estate administration, view timelines and distribution schedule
What's the secret? What's the key? What must I do to have a good estate plan? Could I make it even better? Could I make it PERFECT?
There is only one "Key" to a perfect plan in our opinion: having everything in place and ready when the plan is implemented - and your plan is not implemented today.
There are only two times your plan gets implemented: at disability or at death. And if 100% of your assets are not "aligned" properly at those times, then there is a really good chance your plan won't work.
And having a Will or even a "state-of-the-art" Trust has nothing to do with asset alignment.
Asset Alignment has two (2) components: (1) going WHERE you want it to go; and (2) going IN THE WAY you want it to go.
- going WHERE you want it to go is not as easy as just naming a beneficiary to inherit a particular asset. What if you beneficiary-designate your IRA to your Spouse? Then you die. Then your surviving spouse inherits your IRA. Then your surviving spouse gets re-married and then your surviving spouse dies next - who gets your IRA? Your replacement?
- going IN THE WAY you want it to go is also not as easy as just naming a beneficiary to inherit a particular asset. What if you name a Child to ultimately inherit all or a portion of your assets? Then you die. Then your Child inherits those assets in their name. But, let's say they've already been divorced - or get divorced in the future: do you think that past or future ex-spouse of your Child could possibly get your assets - instead of your Child and then your Grandchildren?