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Estate Planning

Crafting a secure future. Estate planning stands as a vital pillar for seamless asset transfer and the welfare of your loved ones during incapacity and when you’re no longer here. It masterfully orchestrates asset distribution, safeguards minor children, and maps critical medical and financial decisions for potential incapacitation. This meticulous planning shields assets from excess taxes, probate entanglements, and family disputes, thereby lightening tax loads and ensuring rightful legacies. It thoughtfully appoints guardians for minor children, instilling assurance for their tomorrows should unforeseen circumstances arise. Through living wills and power of attorney, it tactically averts conflicts by guiding choices for vulnerable family members. In essence, estate planning empowers families, securing assets, children’s prospects, and last wishes during vulnerability or demise – nurturing financial well-being and harmony. Embark on this crucial journey with us.

Trusts

Crafting a trust is essential to ensure your intentions guide asset distribution after your passing. Without one, state laws dictate division, potentially clashing with your wishes and causing conflict between loved ones. Trusts provide substantial estate planning benefits: privacy, seamless distribution, and controlled management. In complex family scenarios like blended families or minor children, they determine inheritance timing, shield assets from creditors and other messy life situations, and ensure ongoing financial stability.
Furthermore, trusts minimize estate taxes, increasing beneficiary inheritances. They offer adaptable plans without frequent amendments, distinct from wills.
Ultimately, trusts provide asset protection for loved ones, privacy, tax advantages, and personalized financial security, empowering tailored legacies. This versatile tool ensures clarity and security for loved ones. A Trust is the only way to avoid Probate.

Wills

Wills are not the best tool to ensure privacy or protection. There is a common misperception that Wills won’t get probated. Most people think that their estate is protected with a Will, but that is not true. A Will can help streamline the probate process and lets you assign beneficiaries, allocate assets, and name an executor for estate management. BUT a will is only guidance for a judge. Wills can also be easily contested, resulting in family conflict and causes probate to be more expensive and time consuming.

Probate

Navigating the complexities of probate? Lean on our steadfast guidance. Probate’s intricate process, entwined with legalities and asset allocation, can be overwhelming. Our proficient team excels in demystifying probate intricacies, ensuring a smoother passage through trying times. From meticulous document preparation to adept court representation, our mission is to lighten the load on your shoulders. With empathy and unwavering expertise, we offer dependable support to navigate probate confidently. Count on us to be your compass through this journey, providing solace amidst complexity.

“Client Experiences: Their Journey with Us”

Our real estate agent Bob referred Shannon to us for our estate planning needs. She exceeded our expectations. Shannon is extremely knowledgeable in her field, patient with repetitive questions, thorough and extremely attentive to detail. Shannon is very personable and someone now I consider a friend. I highly recommend her!

M.H

Attorney Borden is absolutely wonderful. Although she did not take my case, she explained why in great detail which included it would not benefit me. I wish I had found her before the trash attorney I’m stuck with. She answered my questions, offered suggestions, and provided feedback at no cost. Her dedication is unlike majority of attorneys I’ve encountered.

S.D.

My wife and I just finished working with Shannon to update our trust. Our experience with Shannon was fantastic, she his very professional, knowledgeable and best of all genuinely a wonderful person. I highly recommend Borden Law.