Houston, Texas, Estate Planning Attorneys in Houston
Effective estate planning has many advantages. With proper planning, you will be prepared for anything life may bring. Estate planning allows you to identify your health care wishes. You can create legal documents to distribute your assets. You can provide for your children or loved ones with special needs.
When you visit the law firm of Hayes & Wilson, PLLC in Houston, Texas, our lawyers will listen to your concerns and prepare an estate plan tailored to your individual concerns.
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Estate Plans Focused on Your Unique Needs
We will help you develop an estate plan and related documents that address major areas of concern, such as:
- Disposition of Your Estate: Perhaps most importantly, estate planning allows you to distribute assets in accordance with your wishes. Clear estate planning documents prevent misunderstandings and arguments about your intentions for asset distribution. Additionally, you can select your fiduciaries, the people who will be responsible for overseeing the administration of your estate in probate.
- Asset Protection: Effective estate planning allows you to protect your children's inheritances, reduce estate taxes and minimize future legal fees that will be paid by your estate. Additionally, proper Medicaid planning may reduce the costs of long-term care and protect your assets for future generations.
- Asset Management: Effective estate planning addresses the management of your assets during your lifetime. Trusts and other legal arrangements ensure that your assets are managed in way that meets your objectives. Properly drafted powers of attorney provide authority to people you trust in the event you become unable to manage your affairs.
- Health Care Decisions: By taking the time to develop advance directives and medical powers of attorney, your medical caregivers and your family will know your health care wishes. These documents can remove a difficult burden from your loved ones by clearly stating your medical care choices and who is in charge.
- Guardianship: You may appoint a person to be the guardian of your minor children at your death should you be the last surviving parent. This guardian will be primarily responsible for the health, education and welfare of your children. Similarly, you may appoint a successor guardian for an adult incapacitated child for whom you have been appointed guardian. You may also designate a guardian for yourself in case of later incapacity.
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At Hayes & Wilson, PLLC, we offer a free initial consultation and fixed fees for most services. Contact us today and discover how we are different.
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