Take Proactive Legal Steps for Your Family's Future

Having a properly prepared estate plan is one of the most important things you can do to ensure that your legacy is left in the way you intended. Whether avoiding probate, minimizing estate taxes, providing for minor children or a loved one with special needs, or transferring assets smoothly, the experienced attorneys at Nash Bean Ford & Brown, LLP can provide a strategy and plan that is customized for your individual situation.

The specific things to include in your estate plan vary depending upon your assets; whether you own a business; how you want to protect your family; and the value of your estate.

Your Plan May Need to Include:

• A Last Will and Testament. This can be used to specify how assets should transfer.
• A Trust. A Trust has lots of different purposes, from allowing you to provide for children or a loved one with a disability to helping you protect assets. You’ll need help choosing the right type of trust and following formalities for trust creation.
• Advanced Directives. You will need to use advanced directives like a living will to specify what kinds of medical care you wish to receive and what kinds of care you wish to decline. You may also name a healthcare proxy who you vest with the authority to make decisions on your care when you cannot.
• A Power of Attorney. This gives someone authority to act on your behalf in the management of your assets in case you become incapacitated. You can maintain a greater degree of autonomy by ensuring you have chosen your agent.
  

You may also get help with structuring ownership of joint accounts; estate tax avoidance; investment decisions; assistance with life insurance policy purchases; and a wide variety of other legal matters when you work with an estate planning lawyer. The experienced estate planning attorneys at Nash Bean Ford & Brown, LLP know what legal tools are available; which is key to making effective use of those legal tools to protect you and the people who you care about.



Give us a call today to learn why we’re the estate planning attorney Moline, IL residents rely on.