Estate Planning
Maverick Law offers assistance in all aspects of Estate Planning to clients located in the San Antonio area. Our attorneys will work with you in order to prepare documents that secure a future which protects and provides for you and for the ones you love. We will skillfully assemble an estate plan that will help reduce your estate, gift, and generation skipping taxes. Our experienced lawyers will use every legal tool available to provide you with a complete estate plan.
At Maverick Law, we can create simple wills for individuals or couples, as well as complex wills that contain trusts for your spouse, children, grandchildren, or other loved ones. Our lawyers can also prepare various types of trusts (living trust, crummey trust, insurance trust, special need trust, or Miller trust), guardianship declarations for minor children, medical powers of attorney, health care directive to physicians (aka living wills), and financial powers of attorney. Maverick Law will insure that your personal matters and financial affairs properly protect you and your family.
Many people do not know if they need a Will or not. If you own property, have children, have recently been married or divorced, or wish to make a special bequest to a friend or relative, you should make or update your will. Our estate planning lawyers will work with you to prepare a plan that distributes your property according to your wishes.
Some people wrongly assume that having a will drafted is an expensive, complex undertaking. Our attorneys believe that having a will is so important that they will work with your budget to prepare a will that satisfies your needs and goals. If a more complex will is necessary, our attorneys will work with you to draft a will that is best for your situation. Our experience and expertise often enable our clients to lower estate taxes, thus saving the estate money that greatly exceeds the cost of having a will prepared by an attorney.
Several of our clients ask us to prepare a durable power of attorney and medical power of attorney in order to appoint an agent who will manage their healthcare and finances in the event they are rendered unconscious or otherwise unable to state their wishes. We also prepare other life care documents such as Health Care Directive to Physician (aka Living Will), Pre-Need Declaration of Guardian in the Event of Incapacity, Declaration of Appointment of Guardian for Minor Child, and HIPAA Authorization.
In Texas, the cost to probate a will is relatively inexpensive; however, if you desire to avoid probate, our lawyers can set up a living trust in order to help you avoid probate altogether. A living trust describes how your want your property distributed in the event of your death. While you are alive, you control the trust and have the power to amend or revoke the trust at any time.
To discuss any of these options, please contact Maverick Law to schedule an initial consultation.