Have you created an estate plan to protect your family and preserve your assets if you become incapacitated or pass away? If you haven’t thought about estate planning, if you think you don’t have enough money for estate planning to matter, or if your idea of estate planning starts and ends with writing a will, you’re missing out on a lot of valuable legal protections. Our Bellevue, WA estate planning lawyer can create a custom estate plan to help you preserve everything you’ve worked so hard for. Call Eastside Estate Planning today for a consultation.
Estate Planning Lawyer Bellevue, WA
Estate planning involves setting legal protections for your heirs and managing your assets to reduce the amount your estate pays in taxes and probate fees. Most estate plans involve a will, power-of-attorney documents, and at least one trust. There are other estate planning documents you can include, such as a business succession plan if you are a small business owner, or a guardianship designation, if you have minor children and wish to name a specific individual or couple as their guardian.
Our Bellevue estate planning lawyer gets to know you and your family, so we understand what matters most to you. We determine the necessary properties and assets to protect and identify who you wish to have control over which portion of your estate. We also work with you to establish financial goals and take the right steps to achieve them. Done well, your estate plan, including trusts and strategic financial planning, can help you take the first steps to build generational wealth.
As experienced estate planning attorneys, we understand the weighty fiduciary duties that the executor of your will, trustee of your trust, and those designated to hold your power of attorney have. We help you find the right individuals to fulfill these roles and, if you don’t have anyone in your life that you think can carry the responsibility, also offer our law firm’s services as estate administrators and trustees. And, when your life changes, don’t forget to update your estate plan to reflect a divorce, marriage, or birth of a new child. We’ll help you update an existing estate plan, even if we didn’t initially create it.
Why Our Experience Matters For A Solid Estate Plan
For your estate plan to be effective, it must comply with Washington estate code statutes. Our Bellevue estate planning lawyer creates the right documents, personalized for your responsibilities and financial goals, strong enough to withstand a challenge in probate court by a dissatisfied relative. We have the in-depth experience and legal knowledge necessary to create the right estate plan for even the most complicated estate.
Robert Franco, founder of Eastside Estate Planning, has a five-star rating on AVVO, a perfect rating by his peers
Robert earned an advanced degree from the University of Washington School of Law after earning his J.D.
Our firm has dozens of five-star reviews on Google from happy clients
Ready to get started with a custom estate plan? Call Eastside Estate Planning today for a consultation.