Estate Planning Attorneys in the Pacific Northwest

Creative Solutions to Plan for Your Family’s Future

Everyone wants to plan for the future, but not many people know just how to do it. Thankfully, the law has created various legal avenues to do just that through estate planning.

At Pacific Cascade Legal, our Pacific Northwest estate planning attorneys can help you get your plans started. We take pride in being able to create custom estate plans for every client that meets their exact needs and expectations. To make the best possible estate plans, we start by sitting down with you, getting to know you better, and genuinely understanding what it is that you want out of your plan and how that will benefit your loved ones.

Make an estate plan that hits all the right notes. Call (888) 981-9511 to find out how.

Support for Any Estate Planning Issue

The purpose of an estate plan is to allow you and your loved ones to anticipate some challenges and concerns that might come up in the future, as well as to plan for positive life changes. Using various legal tools, our attorneys can ensure the estate plan we create fulfills its purpose to the best of its ability.

You can come to us for help with the following and more:

• Wills: The most basic function of a will is to allow you to decide who should be the primary manager of your estate once you pass away and decide what property will go to which beneficiaries. It can also discuss who will assume some of your private responsibilities. Most estate plans should include a will, which can be updated as years go by.
• Trusts: A trust names an individual as a trustee who will hold certain assets and responsibilities in your name. When you pass away, the trustee will be responsible for passing those assets to other beneficiaries if needed. Trusts are often used in conjunction with wills because trusts can give highly detailed instructions and information.
• Probate: After you pass away, the will in your estate plan will go through probate for judicial review. This step is used to make certain that the will does not contain any unlawful requirements and that it was made in good faith and while you were in a good state of mind.
• Asset protection planning: When making an estate plan, you can take extra steps to protect and manage certain assets that could be lost due to estate taxes, retirement planning issues, and other complications. Tell our Pacific Northwest estate planning lawyers about the most important assets in your estate, and we can look for the best ways to secure them.
• Charitable planning: People with considerable financial assets sometimes want to use an estate plan to donate to charity as a final way of giving back. We can help you make these arrangements based on the details of your estate. You can also use charitable planning to reduce the overall value of your estate to protect certain benefits like Medicaid coverage.
• Conservatorship and guardianship: You can use your estate plan to decide on guardianship and conservatorship. A guardianship determines who will care for your child or dependents when you pass away. A conservatorship can be used to decide who will help take care of your responsibilities like financial decisions when you cannot due to incapacitation.