Quite simply, estate planning will put your affairs in order, maximizing the benefits your assets can bring to you during your life, and to those you choose to benefit from your estate after your death.
However, when planning your estate there are many other topics which should be discussed with a trained and experienced estate planning attorney who can provide sound advice based upon your individual goals and circumstances.
He will help you in drafting documents to provide instructions concerning your wishes in the event of serious illness or injury, nominate somebody to take over your financial affairs if you become incapacitated, and give directions on how your estate is to be distributed. Done correctly, these documents will also save your loved ones a great deal of emotional stress, and reduce the tax burden on your estate.
Estate planning should include your last will and testament, a living will, medical power of attorney, and a financial power of attorney. These documents should cover every eventuality and circumstance, reducing the emotional stress and financial burden for your loved ones when your time comes.
Attorney William Engelhaupt is an experienced estate planning lawyer, able to advise you and draft the necessary documents to insure your wishes are carried out and your estate passes to its beneficiaries in a timely and cost effective manner. Areas of practice include drafting of Wills (simple and complex distributions), Trusts (revocable and irrevocable), Living Will, Medical Power of Attorney, and Financial Power of Attorney.
Based in Sugar Land, Texas, Attorney William Engelhaupt is an experienced lawyer who helps to plan the estates of clients located in Fort Bend County, Harris County and Brazoria County including Sugar Land, Missouri City, Stafford, Richmond, Rosenberg, Fresno, and the Houston metropolitan area. If you have not planned your estate, or haven’t updated it in the past two years, contact William Engelhaupt now to arrange a free consultation.
Effective estate planning will maximize benefits to your beneficiaries, reduce or even eliminate the tax burden on your estate, and eliminate the cost and time delay of probate. Attorney William Engelhaupt can advise and help you plan your estate in the following areas of practice:
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