Virginia Estate Planning Lawyers
The estate planning lawyers at Livesay & Myers draft wills, trusts, advance medical directives, living wills, and other estate planning documents, and help with probate matters (administration of estates) in .
Protecting Your Estate
At Livesay & Myers, we understand that the complexity of estate planning may seem daunting, and that each individual has different estate administration needs. Therefore, our estate planning lawyers customize estate plans to meet your objectives. They take the time to sit down with you and discuss your financial goals. After learning about you as an individual, they will work with you to develop an estate plan that will meet your goals while maximizing income, minimizing taxes, and often avoiding probate.
With their training and active estate planning practice, our Virginia estate planning attorneys can offer a wide range of services that will help you maximize your estate. Whether you are in the upper or lower income bracket, their experience will allow you to plan for your estate to gain the maximum benefit of all laws, while carrying out your economic and inheritance wishes. Together, you and our estate planning lawyers can work to discover the best plan for your situation.
Protecting Against Incapacity
Our Virginia estate planning attorneys can assist you in preparing a Living Will or Advance Medical Directive which will allow you to state what you want for your own medical care if you are unable to make decisions for yourself. Using a Living Will or Advance Medical Directive, you can:
- Direct that a specific procedure or treatment be provided, such as artificially administered hydration (fluids) or nutrition (feeding);
- Direct that a specific procedure or treatment be withheld; or
- Appoint a person to act as your agent in making health care decisions for you, if it is determined that you are unable to make health care decisions for yourself. This includes the decision to make anatomical gifts of a specific part or parts of your body via organ and tissue donation, or of all of your body.
If you appoint a person to be your agent in a Living Will or Advance Medical Directive, that person has decision-making priority over any other individuals who, could, by law, make health care decisions for you.
Administering an Estate
We can also provide assistance with the settlement of the estate of a deceased loved one. For information about probate matters and the role of an executor in the administration of an estate, click here.
About Our Estate Planning Lawyers
Attorneys Kevin Myers, Matthew Kurylo and Amanda Foley are the estate planning attorneys at Livesay & Myers, while Mr. Myers is our probate attorney. With their broad experience in estate planning, these lawyers can help you interpret the maze of laws related to property rights, taxes, wills, trusts, probate, advance medical directives, living wills, and durable powers of attorney. These attorneys represents clients throughout Northern Virginia and Richmond.
Contact us to schedule your free consultation with our Virginia probate and estate planning lawyers today.
