Estate Planning and Administration
IF YOU OWN PROPERTY, HAVE CHILDREN, HAVE RECENTLY BEEN MARRIED OR DIVORCED, OR WISH TO MAKE A SPECIAL BEQUEST TO A FRIEND OR RELATIVE, YOU SHOULD MAKE OR UPDATE YOUR WILL.
Hammarback, Dusek & Associates, PLC understands that every client’s most important estate planning goal is to secure a future which provides for you and the ones you love. We want to insure that your personal matters and financial affairs are handled appropriately. Our lawyers will insure that your property is distributed according to your wishes. Our experience and expertise often enables our clients to reduce or eliminate death taxes and avoid probate.
Four things to consider:
- Who gets what?
- How do they get it?
- What tax issues pertain to you?
- What impact will the nursing home have on your plan?
Another important reason to meet with an experienced estate planning lawyer is to set forth in a legal document your wishes and directives regarding your healthcare and finances. These documents are critical in the event you are rendered unconscious or otherwise unable to state your wishes.
Hammarback, Dusek & Associates, PLC has worked with:
- Business owners seeking to gradually relinquish control to a new generation
- Clients who want to benefit their families or community
- Employees who are contemplating business ownership
- Individuals looking for ways to pass on their assets while minimizing taxes
- Parents concerned about providing for their children
Hammarback, Dusek & Associates, PLC also helps our clients preserve their wealth in various other ways. The practice of asset protection involves preserving your individual wealth or the assets of your business by minimizing the risk that various creditors can find and take your hard earned assets. Lawyers in our firm who practice in this field work with our clients to create different types of wealth preservation strategies based upon their needs, protecting them, their families, or their businesses from financial crisis, catastrophic judgments and future creditors.
Asset protection strategies vary on the type and location of the property you own.
Without creating the right strategy and safeguards, years of hard work and success can be at risk. Our lawyers are committed to protecting our clients from potential financial crisis.
Hammarback, Dusek & Associates, PLC swerves our clients in the following areas:
- Capital gains tax
- Charitable trusts
- Conservatorships
- Disinheritance
- Estate and trust administration
- Estate tax
- Financial powers of attorney
- Gifting
- Guardianships
- Income tax
- Joint tenancy
- Life insurance trusts and related planning
- Living trusts
- Living wills
- Medicaid/Medicare
- Medical powers of attorney
- Postnuptial agreements
- Powers of attorney
- Prenuptial agreements
- Private foundations
- Probate
- Resolution of family and business differences
- Retirement planning
- Succession planning for family-owned businesses
- Tax issues
- Tax reduction strategies
- Trusts
- Trust termination
- Trustee selection
- Wills
Hammarback, Dusek & Associates, PLC is familiar with the special issues that face our clients as they get older or become disabled. We have experience dealing with:
- Age discrimination
- Disability and disability planning
- Health care-including Medicare and Medicaid
- Health insurance and managed care, including payment for health care
- Housing options for the elderly-assisted living, residential homes
- Issues relating to Social Security
- Long-term care, home care and nursing
- Nursing homes and nursing home abuse
- Protecting hard-earned family assets from nursing home bills/Medicaid planning
Retirement Income Planning
These are just some of the issues that arise for seniors more regularly than others. We are here to help you or someone you love who may need assistance.
Should you or anyone you know need help, please contact us. Your initial consultation is FREE. There is an attorney available twenty-four hours to answer your questions.