Estate Planning

North Carolina Estate Planning and Probate law Lawyers

Estate planning gives you the tools to transfer your personal and family assets to beneficiaries of your choice upon your death. The Raleigh, North Carolina estate and probate law offices of Herring Mills & Kratt PLLC is recognized for providing knowledgeable estate planning, probate, and asset protection services.

We Will Help You Preserve Your Assets for Your Heirs

At Herring Mills & Kratt PLLC,, our objective is always to establish a plan that will preserve the maximum amount of your wealth to be distributed to your intended beneficiaries now or upon your death. We integrate our estate planning services into a comprehensive set of family law and business transaction practice area groups. Because our primary objective is to help you to designate beneficiaries and structure your documents to ensure that your property is distributed properly, including managing state and federal taxes and asset protection, our estate planning attorneys work closely with attorneys throughout the firm and independent financial planning experts and business valuation professionals, to meet your needs.

Comprehensive Estate Planning Services

Our estate planning attorneys do more than just draft simple wills. By working closely with you to determine your personal and financial goals, we will develop estate-planning strategies tailored specifically for you. When we meet to discuss your objectives, we will explain how your estate may be affected by taxes and probate laws. We will look at the appropriate legal and financial options to protect your spouse and beneficiaries from future probate concerns.

We can meet your estate planning needs, from simple documents to complex and comprehensive plans:

• Wills and Trusts
• Probate and estate administration
• Living wills (advance health care directives)
• Powers of attorney: financial and medical
• Business succession planning
• Living trusts and asset distribution
• Tax planning - estate and gift taxes
• Healthcare planning including Medicare and Medicaid

Guardianship

Our estate planning lawyers can also help you file for a court-appointed guardianship of an underage minor or vulnerable adult in your life. Protecting assets and affairs through guardianship is an important means of protecting your loved ones from being taken advantage of. We handle every aspect of the guardianship application process, from initial record gathering through court preparation and representation.

Individualized Services

We offer individualized, reasonably-priced services for clients with simple or complex estate planning issues. Whatever your estate planning or probate needs are— from a simple will or power of attorney to complex trusts and Medicaid planning— we can help.

Contact the estate planning law offices of Herring Mills & Kratt PLLC, in Raleigh, North Carolina, to schedule an opportunity to meet with our attorneys. Let us show you the advantage of having a lifetime law firm working for you.

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