Lake Wales, Florida, Estate Planning Attorney
You have spent a lifetime earning a living, collecting assets, and enhancing a family legacy. It is important that you protect your final wishes regarding this legacy through effective estate planning. Otherwise, the government will determine how to administer your estate. Contact our wills, trusts, and probate lawyers to make your final wishes known and attain peace of mind.
Providing Experienced Estate Planning Services
- Wills: Declare how distribute assets, create trusts for children and grandchildren, and appoint guardians for minor children in a valid last will and testament.
- Trusts: Protect assets and government benefit eligibility through a special needs trust, or avoid substantial estate taxes by creating a marital deduction trust or a charitable remainder trust. Proper use of revocable trusts can help your estate avoid probate all together.
- Advanced directives: Plan for your final healthcare wishes by creating:
- Living will declaration: State in layman's terms and in precise technical language that you do not wish doctors to artificially prolong your life if you are in a terminal state or in an advanced Alzeheimer's condition.
- Durable power of attorney: Appoint an individual to make decisions regarding your finances and daily needs in the event that you become incapacitated or unable to handle your personal affairs. If a durable power of attorney is not created prior to, incapacity, the creation of a guardianship may be necessary.
- Healthcare power of attorney: Appoint a loved one to make decisions regarding your healthcare in the event that you become incapacitated or unable to make those decisions on your own.
Estate Administration Services
In addition to assisting individuals plan for their final wishes, Weaver, McClendon & Penrod, LLP, also assists families in carrying out those wishes after a loved one passes. We comfort our clients in their time of loss and assist in ensuring the estate administered. We provide trust administration and representation in will contests when needed.
Contact Weaver, McClendon & Penrod, LLP
The estate administration process can be a stressful time for family members. By creating an effective estate plan, you can rest assured that your affairs are in order and that your final wishes will be followed. Our ultimate goal is to provide peace of mind to family members and their loved ones. Contact our Lake Wales, Florida, estate planning attorneys and probate lawyers today.
Weaver, McClendon & Penrod, LLP
240 East Park Avenue
Post Office Box 446
Lake Wales, FL 33859-0466
Phone: (863) 676-6000
Fax: (863) 678-1515
E-mail
Located in Polk County, our office serves clients in Polk and Highlands Counties, throughout Central Florida, Avon Park, Bartow, Davenport, Fort Meade, Frostproof, Haines City, Lake Hamilton, Lake Wales, Sebring, and Winter Haven, Florida.
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