ESTATE PLANNING AND PROBATE

            The Law Offices of William Studzinski, P.C. can assist you and your family with your estate planning and probate needs.

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION.  Estate Planning refers to the legal methods which you can employ to preserve, protect, and direct the disposition of your family’s assets during your life and after your death.  Through wills, trusts, and other estate planning instruments, we can create a plan which will allow you to dictate exactly how and, in many cases, when, your assets will be available to your heirs or beneficiaries when you are no longer around.  Without an effective estate plan, state laws will dictate where your assets will go.  After working hard all of your life to build your assets, you want to make sure you have as much power as possible to decide who will benefit from them when you are not here.  An estate plan is thus crucial.  Also, through health care proxies and living wills, we can also help you direct others to make decisions regarding your medical care in the event you are no longer able to make your own decisions.

A HELPING HAND.  You have just learned you were named executor of your beloved aunt’s estate.  You have never done this before and you do not  know how to begin.  The probate process can be very confusing and intimidating, especially at a time when an estate executor or administrator may be experiencing grief at the loss of a loved one.  The Law Offices of William Studzinski, P.C. can help an executor or administrator through the difficult probate process and alleviate the burden of carrying out the decedent’s wishes and complying with the law.