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Nassau County Will And Estate Lawyers
Sensitive Probate matters are best taken care of before someone passes away. Here at Raiser & Kenniff, PC we can’t stress enough how possible it is to have your Estate Planning done in a stress-free environment with the knowledge of terrific lawyers behind you. And this will prevent later issues in Probate court that might make your loved ones suffer while they’re already having to deal with your passing away. Two types of clients come to us about Estate Planning: Those who want to plan their own estate or those who have been entrusted to carry out the estate plans of someone else. Both of these legal situations are incredibly complicated and require our skilled hand in these matters.
Your Estate is your money, assets, and property. Anything that belongs to you is a part of your Estate, and you’d be surprised how little an estate can be while still making things complicated for a Probate court. Even if you only have a couple of hundred dollars to your name, the Court must decide where this amount is going to go after you die. This means that if you don’t have a will, it’s up to the court to find heirs, determine where your assets should go, and this means long periods of time in Probate court. This can quickly become a nightmare for a family who is fighting over where that few hundred dollars should go. Add a much bigger estate and things become even more nightmarish. Don’t let it get to that point.
Creating a good will
The best insurance you have against your family ending up in Probate court is to create a rock solid legal will. This means that it’s formal, has legal language that makes it authentic to the court, and that you have entrusted someone to execute your wishes after you die. If you’ve been entrusted as Executor of someone else’s estate, you already know how complicated all of this gets. Let us make things easier for you! You don’t have to suffer through all of this alone. Estate lawyers are vital to your cause.
If you pass without a will, the Probate court goes into a process of trying to figure out how to distribute your assets. The court itself will appoint someone as executor of your estate and that means you have to leave your most sensitive family matters to someone you may or may not have approved of in this situation. How much easier will it be for you to take care of this BEFORE the inevitable happens and you leave your estate behind? It’s going to be easier to take care of things for your family and secure their peace of mind in the event of your death if you talk to us today.
Estate Planning
Another central component of Estate Planning is the trust. When you set up a living Trust, you can make sure that certain money and property doesn’t go into Probate after your death. This means that you need someone who will take care of your sensitive matters as if they were their own. It’s essential to appoint someone who is both capable of carrying out the tasks of the trust AND that is capable of being trustworthy in this situation. Trusts are ideal in that they allow your loved ones to get their money and/or property sooner after you die because the things in the trust aren’t subject to Probate.
If you prefer a will, that can work for you, too. Some of it will depend in what’s in your estate and exactly what you want to happen to those things after you pass away. If you’ve been put in charge of someone else’s estate, things change altogether there, too. You may be confused about how to begin executing your loved one’s wishes. Probate court may intimidate or confuse you to the point where doing these things puts you in a great amount of emotional duress. That’s when it’s time to call on us to take care of these important matters. It’s a simple matter of making a phone call and setting up a totally free consultation with us. Call us today.