Yes, creating an estate plan can be emotionally sobering work. 我们可以帮忙! Whether your estate is a modest one or quite substantial, creating an estate plan is a significant act of kindness for your loved ones. 你可以把它看作是“问题预防”.”
你有遗嘱吗? 如果不是, 维吉尼亚法令中有一个, and it is a “one size fits all” deal – and might not fit your family situation…
- Decide what happens to your property after you leave us.
- 你有最喜欢的慈善机构吗? 除非你告诉我们，否则他们一分钱也拿不到.
- 你想要排除某人吗? 除非你告诉我们，否则那也不会发生.
- If you have minor children, you are privileged to nominate their guardian.
- Nominate the person you wish to be in charge of your estate.
- Divorced with kids and don’t want to leave your estate for their benefit but in the hands of the other parent? 来看看我们吧!
你有授权委托书吗?
- You can choose who will manipulate your resources for you if you become unable.
- The only alternative is the in-court proceeding called Guardianship – your family will have to ask a Judge to decide. Costly, it’ll seem slow, and usually aggravating.
Do You Have an Advance Medical Directive or “Living Will”?
- Your preferred healthcare choices in case you lose the ability to communicate.
- 您喜欢的临终指示
- 器官捐献者? 让我们知道.
- 为科学捐款? 你必须告诉我们.
- 比如委托书, the only alternative is the in-court process to have a Judge decide who will interact with your doctors for you.
已婚但与配偶分居? 30年没见过配偶了? 讨厌他们的胆量? Feel like you’d prefer to perform an appendectomy on them with a rusty razor than say hello? No matter – you still have a lawfully wedded spouse – someone who can show up and demand the spousal share of your estate. Come talk to us about ways you can prepare to handle that possibility.
Committed to Each Other but Not Lawfully Married? 你真的需要一个遗产计划.
- Virginia public policy (and statute) is heavily unfavorable to claim of common law marriage.
- 住在一起, 即使是几十年, does not change the fact that in the eyes of the law, the starting assumption is that you are legal strangers.
- A well-drafted estate plan consisting of a will, a power of attorney and an advance medical directive will ensure that your trusted unwed loved one is the person who we’ll look to on occasion of your death or disability.
Probate and Probate Avoidance and Estate Administration
- Guidance for executors or administrators or trustees
- Advice about pay-on-death and transfer-on-death probate avoidance
- Advice about naming (or not naming) joint owners on your accounts
Have you attended one of those seminars where the presenter urged that everyone should have an estate plan and your estate plan should be a trust, 现在你有了一个? Do you feel like you’ve got a dump-truck sized estate plan for a moped-sized estate? Confused about what you have and how it works? We can help you assess and if necessary, make appropriate changes.
另一方面, if you have an estate planning situation that calls for creation of a trust to address it, 我们会帮你的, 太!
Did you obtain a will or other estate planning document off the internet for free or cheap? You ought to have a Virginia-licensed attorney review it to ensure the document will work in Virginia.
Ditto if you got your will or power of attorney for free from the on-base military legal services office. We’re not picking a fight with the military JAG corps, 但弗吉尼亚的遗产规划可能很奇怪, and we find that it’s a rare day when a military will or POA was reviewed and approved by a legal officer licensed to practice in Virginia. 它很重要!
