Do Not Trust Your Estate Planning to a Store-Bought or On-Line Form
Do-it-yourself kits are fine for many things — making birdhouses, repairing a door knob, grouting your tile — but not for drafting an estate plan. Boilerplate legal documents, like those that you buy in an office-supply store, or on the Internet, cannot effectively protect your assets and your beneficiaries, or ensure that your wishes are honored, because of a) the intricacies of your particular case, to which store-bought documents are not well suited; and, b) the formalities of Georgia law, with which store-bought documents may not comply. Every person's estate is unique, as are the uses to which you would like your wealth put, and require particularized attention from an experienced estate planning lawyer.
The Atlanta-area Law Offices of L. Tracy Teiger (with office locations in Alpharetta and Cumming, Georgia) gives clients the benefit of a lawyer who has more than 20 years of legal experience, whose cost-conscious law practice achieves affordable results. To get more information about creating a legally sufficient, comprehensive, enforceable estate plan, contact us today. You can send us an e-mail, call us at 404-435-9371 or text us at 770-833-9424.
What Estate Planning Tools are Best for You?
Our office can educate you about various asset protection methods to best meet your goals. Commonly used tools include:
- Will: a basic document for transferring your wealth, particularly helpful to disburse smaller-value estates.
- Trust: a way to distribute property according to specific conditions (during life and after death).
- General Power of Attorney: a legal document granting a person the authority to act for you in important transactional matters, particularly in the event of your illness or incapacity.
- Living Will and Durable Medical Power of Attorney: documents that prescribe your choices for end-of-life care and appoint someone to convey those choices to medical service-providers in the event that you are incapable of doing so.
The issues addressed by these documents are too important and complicated to risk drafting without a lawyer. Your estate plan should disburse wealth, pay debts, provide information about funeral arrangements, address future health issues and grant an individual or entity power of attorney to act on your behalf. We have reviewed do-it-yourself wills and trusts over the years, finding the great majority to be ineffective, unenforceable, open to challenge in probate court and susceptible to unfavorable tax consequences.
Experience. Accessibility. Value.
The Law Offices of L. Tracy Teiger, P.C. will meet with you to capture the precise objectives of your estate plan, then will draft precise, legally-enforceable and effective documents that will meet your goals and give you comfort in knowing that the people and causes that you care for most have been provided for. We offer each client the benefit of more than 20 years of experience, having an attorney accessible to methodically guide them through the process of preparing and signing these most important legal instruments. To learn more about our affordable services, contact us online, call us at 404-435-9371 or send a text to 770-833-9424.
