WAW estate attorneys offer you confidentiality, sensitivity and experience, and a broad understanding of current issues affecting trust 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.

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