Good estate planning shows love and respect for the people you care about by creating a road map to ease your family's burden of administering your estate.

The “real” purpose of estate planning is to show love and respect for the people you care about. Upon your death, you don’t want to compel your family, friends, and business partners who are involved with your estate to deal with a complicated, expensive, and time consuming mess in administrating your estate. To the contrary, good estate planning creates a road map to ease the burden of estate administration. At our law firm, we will listen to your needs and goals, make recommendations based upon your individual circumstances, and prepare documents including:

* Wills

* Testamentary Trusts in Wills for children and dependents

* Naming Guardians in Wills in the event of both parents’ deaths

* Trusts designed to minimize or eliminate state and federal estate tax

* General Durable Powers of Attorney for financial matters

* Durable Powers of Attorney for health care decisions

* Health Care Directives (“Living Will”)

* Living Trusts

* Community Property Agreements

We strongly believe that every adult should have a Will. The decisions involved in finalizing a Will are a very healthy process for people to undergo. Everyone’s situation is unique. What’s your unique story? How does that influence your estate planning goals now? By creating a Will, you can turn those goals into a reality.

The Pacific Northwest is demographically diverse. We represent single people, married people, and people in long-term committed unmarried relationships. We represent straight people and gay people. We recognize the unique challenges that any relationships can pose in estate planning, and we’re happy to work with you to make sure your goals are met. We can also help make sure that people take care of their pets as part of the estate planning process. Pets are part of your family too!

If you, your family, friends, neighbors, or co-workers have estate planning questions, give us a call at 253.858.5434 to see how we can be of service. We represent clients throughout Washington and Idaho and are available to meet in person, by phone, or via video conference.