Drafting Wills
A will is a written instrument which controls the disposition of your property at death. Creating a will is a step you can take to help protect your family and your property. You can use a will to name a personal guardian to care for your minor children, name a trusted person to manage property left to minor children, leave your property to people or organizations, and name an executor to ensure that the terms of your will are carried out.
Health Care Proxy
A Health Care Proxy allows you to name someone you know and trust to make health care decisions for you. Your agent acts on your behalf only when you are unable to do so, whether you are temporarily or permanently incapacitated. Your doctor must determine that you lack the ability to make your own health care decisions.
Durable Power Of Attorney
A durable power of attorney is a simple, reliable way to arrange for someone to manage your finances if you become incapacitated (unable to make decisions for yourself). It gives another person legal authority to act on your behalf. This document is good to make for yourself, but it can also be an enormous blessing for your family. If you become unable to decide your affairs for yourself and you haven't prepared a durable power of attorney, a court proceeding is probably inevitable. Your spouse or closest relatives will have to petition a court for authority over at least some of your financial affairs.
Trusts
A trust is a legal relationship set up by a donor in which one or more persons hold property for the benefit of one or more others. It provides for asset management before and after death, protects beneficiaries by giving control of trust funds to a trustee, reduces income or estate taxes by transferring to another the benefit and tax liability, assures stand-by protection in the event of illness or disability, and reduces administration and probate costs and delays at death.