Twin Cities Wills and Estate Planning Lawyer
For comprehensive representation regarding wills and estate planning, you can entrust your legal affairs to G. Martin Johnson, Ltd., Attorney at Law, in Burnsville, Minnesota. With more than 30 years of experience, our law firm offers the knowledge and common sense that are needed to create and maintain effective wills and trusts.
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The dynamics of any family are likely to suffer when someone dies without a will. When are you "old enough" to create a will? Certainly by the time you have children or start accumulating significant financial assets. Absolutely when you divorce and remarry and have more children.
At G. Martin Johnson, Ltd. we offer a package of estate planning services tailor-made to protect your estate when you die or at any time you should become unable to manage your own affairs. For clients with minor children, attorney Martin Johnson often recommends creating a spendthrift trust to ensure that minors will not have free access to their inheritance before they are mature enough to handle it. Health care directives and powers of attorney are other essential components of estate planning, for both individuals and couples.
The goal of all estate planning is to make sure your assets go where you want them to go. One important step in this process is to make sure the titling of assets is consistent with the terms and conditions of your will and trust. If not, these inconsistencies can cause time-consuming and costly delays in probate.
There are many tools available that enable the transfer of assets to beneficiaries with minimum or no tax consequences. These include establishing joint tenancy on real estate; naming beneficiaries on IRAs, 401(k)'s and other retirement plans; and establishing payable on death (POD) arrangements on bank accounts.
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Let our law firm help you devise the best solution to your estate planning needs. For a free consultation with a knowledgeable and trustworthy Minnesota lawyer, please call 952-881-9758 today. Or e-mail us using the special Probate and Estate Planning Intake Form on this Web site.
