Wills, Estates, Trusts and Estate Administration

Knowledgeable Virginia Estate and Trust Attorneys

WAW estate attorneys offer you confidentiality, sensitivity and experience, and a broad understanding of current issues affecting trust, will and estate administration. We can help you write your will, living trust, and other documents to ensure that your estate is dispersed according to your desires while preserving family wealth. We also prepare powers of attorney and advance medical directives to provide for your financial and medical needs should you become incapacitated. We seek to handle your estate and financial affairs efficiently and in a manner that will help your heirs reduce future potential legal difficulties, minimize taxes and eliminate as many financial burdens as possible.

The Goals of Estate Planning - Estate planning by an experienced wills and trusts attorney allows you to accomplish a number of important goals:

·          A properly drafted will or trust can ensure that the appropriate people inherit your assets, as and when you intend

·          A variety of irrevocable trusts can be used to minimize your tax bill, and your loved one's tax bill when they inherit your estate

·          A living trust allows you to maintain control of your assets during your lifetime while avoiding probate after your death

·          A living will (or health care directive) can ensure your loved ones know your wishes in cases of medical emergency or at the end of life, while a health care proxy can allow someone to make health care decisions when you are unable to

·          A durable power of attorney can allow someone to handle your finances in the event you become unable to

WAW maintains a strong practice in the area of estate planning and administration including the handling of large, complex estates involving closely-held business interests and a range of gift, estate, inheritance and generation-skipping transfer tax issues with an emphasis on business succession planning. WAW attorneys can help you with the following areas of estate, trust and succession planning:

•  Individual, business and estate tax planning
• Estate administration
• Trusts
• Testamentary
•   Living
•  Qualified personal residence
•  Life insurance
•  Grantor retained interest
• Charitable lead
• Charitable remainder trusts
• Probate
• Guardianship
• Health care planning
• Estate and trust litigation
• Gifting arrangements
• Limited partnerships
• Small business succession planning
• Life insurance planning
• Retirement planning

WAW's Wills, Estates, Trusts, and Estate Administration Attorneys:

Jeffrey R. Adams
Trisha A. Culp
Mai-Linh K. Hong
James L. Johnson
Matthew W. Light
Stephan W. Milo
George H. Roberts, Jr.
Donald E. Showalter
P. Marshall Yoder