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Whether You Need Help with a Living Trust, a Will, Probate, Medicaid Planning, VA Aid and Attendance or Special Needs Planning, We are Here to Help

If you fail to do proper estate planning, those left behind can be devastated. Fortunately, we have free resources here for you. The planning advice of family and friends often does more harm than good as each person's estate and therefore their estate planning needs are different. As you may have read, a majority of Americans do not have a meaningful estate plan in place. Some surveys suggest that as many as 70% of American adults have no estate plan at all. Without at least a will in place, the ultimate decisions about how your estate will be distributed will be made by the government. Yet, with the proper estate plan in place, you can control how the estate is distributed and even avoid probate. We have placed solutions right here on this website for your estate planning problems. Free resources, articles, audios, videos and free telephone consultation if needed is all available to you now. You can begin planning to protect your family now.

To get the proper estate plan in place to avoid probate, satisfy your tax planning goals and provide asset protection planning for your family, you should enlist the help of a qualified estate planning attorney. We are happy to work with you on putting together a comprehensive plan when you are ready. Our firm was founded to provide Georgia families like yours with the resources and creativity to put together a comprehensive estate plan for you and your family. Whether you have need a Georgia estate planning attorney for living trusts, wills and trusts, a power of attorney, asset protection planning, an irrevocable trust, tax planning, special needs planning or probate, our firm is here to help both now and in the future.

You may have heard that the estate tax is repealed for 2010 and wonder to yourself if now is the best time for you to plan. The short answer is yes, there is no better time than right now to plan for your family. No one can tell you when tragedy will strike and if tragedy does strike without the proper plan in place, your family could be devastated. Because of the uncertainty surrounding the estate tax, our approach is to build as much flexibility into your estate plan as we possibly can. Using creative strategies and cutting edge techniques, we build estate plans that can adjust to changing circumstances. This way, as things change, your estate plan will too. We will work collaboratively with you, your financial advisor and your accountant to craft a customized plan that solves your specific estate planning issues.
Our mission is to offer you the best help available for your estates and trusts issues, and the tools and resources you need to build a comprehensive plan. The estate planning we offer focuses on creating customized solutions using creative strategies and great advice.
We have many free resources available to help you learn more about our firm, our attorneys and estate planning in general. These resources are free to you and contain the answers to many questions that you may have.
To learn more about the types of clients that we help, please see our Who We Serve page.