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Estate planning is the process of arranging for the transfer of your assets upon your death. Effective estate planning will help preserve your assets and leave them for the intended beneficiaries, while giving you the ability to change beneficiaries prior to your death. Plus, you can eliminate the uncertainties that often lead to painful and expensive family conflicts and avoid leaving your loved ones the additional burden of dealing with an unplanned estate. Drafting an effective estate plan is like planting a shade tree today for your family to enjoy for generations—but an ineffective estate plan could be worse than no plan at all.
Probate is the legal process where a court manages the distribution of the assets that you own (your “estate”) when you pass away, after all of your bills are paid. The probate process is the general administering of your Will or your estate if you die intestate (without a Will). The probate court will appoint the Executor (male) or Executrix (female) (also often called a “Personal Representative”) who is named in your Will, or it will appoint someone if there is no Will.
Everyone wants to protect their assets. Experienced legal counsel can help identify potential risks and work to mitigate those risks. From landlords, business owners, and professionals, to retirees wanting to protect the equity in their home from Medicaid (or other) “estate recovery” liens, Sluder Law Firm can help.
This highly specialized asset protection tool can be the difference between your home (and other assets) going to your loved ones or having to be sold to pay the back the state for care you received before passing away.
Even the most honest, well-intentioned parties, acting with the utmost good faith, can have an honest misunderstanding, and even the smallest honest misunderstanding can snowball into a major dispute, one that leads to expensive, time-consuming litigation. Oral agreements, and even ones hashed out via email and/or text, are notoriously hard to enforce and, when enforceable, usually fail to consider all of the possible ways things can go sideways. An experienced business attorney can help ensure that all parties involved are operating from the same, well-written and easily-understood, page(s)—and that everyone understands that the contract is the deal.
From making sure your new business name and/or logo don’t infringe on someone else’s intellectual property, to helping you protect your branding, Sluder Law Firm is here to help.
