Estate Planning

Estate Planning is a process of creating legal documents to carry out your wishes regarding your finances, property, healthcare, and child-raising, so that they will be respected when you are unable to express your wishes for yourself.
Heller-Neal Law Offices provides comprehensive estate planning services. Unlike other law offices, we do not put premium prices on certain documents. We provide everything you need at a cost you can afford.

Estate Planning is a process of creating legal documents to carry out your wishes regarding your finances, property, healthcare, and child-raising, so that they will be respected when you are unable to express your wishes for yourself.

This process includes the use of:
  • wills, 
  • powers of attorney for finance and healthcare,
  • trusts,
  • deeds,
  • marital property agreements,
  • authorizations for final disposition, and
  • a thorough examination of beneficiary designations on non-probate property.

Please click the links provided above for more information about each of the parts of the process. Further, several articles are provided below for your perusal. 

Contact Heller-Neal Law Offices today to schedule a free initial consultation.
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Protecting Young Adults via Estate Planning

While young people may not need a full estate plan, it is important that they fill out a power of attorney for healthcare and a power of attorney for finances, or they may need to go through a guardianship proceeding if they are ever severely injured and unconscious.

Basic Estate Planning for Families

Learn about the different estate planning documents in a basic estate plan. Includes information about choosing a guardian for children and deciding between a child trust or a uniform transfers to minors account.

Learn how much money an estate plan can save you.

While it is likely that you will not have to worry about estate tax, you can still save a great deal of money by creating an estate plan to avoid adult guardianship, probate, and other pitfalls.