Nevada Estate Planning Lawyer

Nevada Estate Planning Lawyer

Business Succession - Probate and Trust Administration - Elder Law

We focus on estate planning, probate and trust administration, asset protection planning and advising elderly persons on their unique legal needs.  We recognize that your estate was created as a result of your entire life's work, and that planning to protect it and pass it along is one of the most important things that you will do in your life.  We also understand that our services have to be affordable and that they must be understandable to you before you can make good estate planning decisions.  For that reason, we offer a free consultation in which we will listen to what you want to accomplish and then we will tell you what we can do to meet that objective and how much it will cost.  If you choose to hire us, we will spend the necessary time and give you the personal attention you deserve for such important decisions.  And if you hire us, you will have the peace of mind knowing that you and your heirs will be protected and that you will be minimizing the income and estate taxes that you might otherwise have to pay. 

Estate Planning - Our objective is to help clients avoid probate, minimize their income taxes, estate taxes and gift taxes and to protect and preserve their assets for their retirement and to pass on to their heirs.  We advise clients in all stations of life.  There is no person too poor or too rich for our services or expertise.  There also is no client too young or too old.

In particular, we prepare the following estate planning documents for our clients depending on their needs, their family relationships and their financial situation:

For clients with simple estates, perhaps a simple, inexpensive last will & testament is sufficient.  For persons with more complicated or extensive estates, we can prepare a large array of trusts to meet their more complex planning objectives, including the following:

Asset Protection - For persons involved in professions or businesses that expose them to high liability (e.g. doctors, dentists, accountants, engineers, lawyers, contractors, realtors and consultants), and for persons with high levels of wealth who are concerned about their own personal liability from operating a vehicle, owning real estate or simply owning a home, we can assist you in protecting the wealth that you accumulate from being exposed to such liability through the use of the following entities and trusts:

Business Planning - For business owners, we can assist you with all aspects of business succession planning and protection of assets against business liability.  In particular, we offer the following services:

Elder Law - For elderly clients with concerns about long-term care and the possibility of becoming legally incapacitated, we provide the following services in addition to our general estate planning practice:

Guardianship - And for persons who are dealing with the legal issues involved with a parent or other loved-one who is already incapacitated because of age, illness or injury, we assist them in becoming the court-appointed guardians for such disabled persons.

Probate & Trust Administration - Finally, we represent clients in all aspects of estate administration.  If a person has died without a will or a trust, we can represent the nearest living relative with the administration of the estate according to the intestacy statutes.  If the deceased person left a last will & testament, we can represent the named personal representative (executor) in the probate of the estate.  When a deceased person leaves an estate in a trust, we can advise the successor trustee in administering and distributing the estate according to the terms of the trust.  We also represent clients who are heirs of estates or beneficiaries of trusts in making certain that they receive all the accounting records and distribution of assets to which they are entitled.

Location - Located in the Las Vegas Valley, the firm advises clients throughout all of southern Nevada, including Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City, Pahrump, Mesquite and all other parts of Clark County, Nye County and Lincoln County.  Our office is also within reasonable travel distance for clients located in southern Utah, northwestern Arizona and southeastern California.  With our office located at 851 S. Rampart Blvd. in  Las Vegas, we are particularly convenient for clients living in the Summerlin, Lakes, Peccole Ranch, Queensridge, Sienna, Redrock Country Club, Lone Mountain, Blue Diamond and Mountain's Edge Communities.

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