We make sure our clients know all of their options before making decisions related to their family law or estate planning matter. We draft wills, revocable trusts, pour-over wills, durable powers of attorney for financial affairs, durable powers of attorney for health care, irrevocable life insurance trusts, second-to-die irrevocable life insurance trusts, family limited liability companies, family limited liability partnerships, asset protection trusts and other documents.
We will provide you with expert advice and affordable services for almost any issue your nonprofit organization may encounter, such as forming Estate Planning Lawyer Leesburg a new legal entity, amending governance structure or policies, and navigating through the maze of IRS and state regulations that exist.



The best way to plan for the one certainty—death—is to create a comprehensive estate plan While the very term estate plan” may bring to mind a complex set of documents that only the very rich require, in fact every single person can benefit from some level of estate planning.
Most families find probate to be frustrating and wish they were not going through it. When our clients say if Dad knew he could avoid probate with a living trust I sure he would have done that.” It's even possible to have probate in more than one state.

The Law Office of Patricia E. Tichenor, P.L.L.C will assist you in creating an estate plan, which may include seeking appointment as a Guardian or Conservator for your adult child, or drawing up a Special Needs Trust, in order to ensure your child's rights and needs are protected for his or her lifetime not only while you're here but, also, after you're gone.
At the law office of Carluzzo Rochkind & Smith, P.C. , we help individuals create estate plans in Manassas, Prince William, Manassas Park, Gainesville, Haymarket, Woodbridge, Lake Ridge, Dumfries, Bristow, Warrenton, Centreville, Fairfax, Stafford, Chantilly, Leesburg, Ashburn, Sterling, Herndon, Reston, Alexandria, Annandale, Arlington, and throughout Northern Virginia.
If you decide to add a living trust to your estate plan, then you can have a very simple will that functions as what's called a "pour-over will," to allow your executor to merely serve to transfer to the control of your trustee and your trust any assets that you did not title in the trust prior to your death, did not name the trust as the beneficiary of prior to your death, or did not name a living person to receive at your death.
It can be scary to face your own mortality and procrastinate on estate planning, but it's even scarier to think about the legal, financial, and emotional aggravation your children and surviving relatives will have to deal with if you don't have a plan in place.