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 Estate planning is about planning for your future and the future of your family. Proper estate planning can minimize estate taxes while maximizing the assets that you pass on to your beneficiaries. Estate planning documents can also be tailored to take into consideration guardianship issues of minor children and set up trusts for minors (children, grandchildren, etc.). An estate plan will often include a living will, a last will and testament and a power of attorney in the eventuality that you are incapacitated and need someone to make decisions for you. 

Our firm handles matters that deal with the distribution of an individual's property upon his or her death, taking into account the Last Will and Testament, taxes, insurance, real property and trusts. We have extensive knowledge of the probate process as well as non-probate transfers of the deceased's assets. 

There are some situations in which probate is not necessary and assets can be transferred from the name of the decedent into the name of the beneficiary in a rather simple fashion -- for example, in the case of a small estate affidavit. In other situations, probate will not be necessary because all of the decedent's assets are held within a revocable living trust or family trust.