Minnesota Will and Estate Planning Attorney

Why Get an Estate Plan and Will?

Planning for your death protects your assets and helps your loved ones. By making arrangements for the disposition of your assets, you can preserve the value of your assets and smooth the transition during a difficult an emotional time for your loved ones.

A Minnesota estate planning attorney can assist you by preparing a will, trust, revocable trust, LLC, or other estate planning vehicle that reduces taxes, decreases costs, and gives you control over your assets after your death.

Who Needs an Estate Plan (will, trust, etc.)?

Unless you want the government to decide how to distribute your property and assets when you die, you need an estate plan. We all need an estate plan, regardless of the amount of our assets or our family situation, unless we want to let government decide how to dispose of our estate after death. This is especially true for those who have children, so the parents can decide who would care for the kids.

What Should I have in an Estate Plan?

Proper estate planning will take into account your entire situation and goals, and align those with the proper estate planning tools (wills, trusts, LLCs, power of attorney, living will, health care directive, etc.) to reduce your taxes, minimize costs, and ensure your intentions are followed.

Why Not Just Use Will Software?

- Potential errors. You can’t fix problems in your will after your death. For this reason, your will needs to be correct the first time. Unfortunately, problems with a will are normally not found until after the person’s death. It is at this time a person’s loved ones may find errors in the will resulting from

  • software that failed to take into account the laws of a particular state
  • software that did not give the will preparer proper instructions
  • the will preparer’s lack of legal knowledge

Errors can lead to an improper allocation of your assets, confusion that must be decided by a court, frustration and disharmony among your beneficiaries, and sometimes, a court declaration that the errors voided your will (for example, when your intentions were unclear due to the errors).

- Reducing costs and taxes. Unfortunately, no software is capable of analyzing a person’s entire family and financial situation like an attorney. Similarly, software gives general answers but an attorney gives answers tailored to your situation. Further, software may prepare a will but fail to recommend a trust that could save the person a substantial amount of money. For these reasons, an attorney can save you money on taxes and costs in probate that far exceed the cost of hiring an attorney to prepare your estate plan.

How Do I Start?

Give some thought to who should receive your assets and care for your children. Then meet with an estate planning attorney to discuss the best way to accomplish your goals, while reducing taxes and costs in the probate process.

Contact a Minnesota Estate Planning Attorney: 612-208-FIRM (612-208-3476)

To prepare an estate plan for you, contact Minnesota lawyer Aaron Hall to schedule an appointment. Appointments are free. Call 612-208-FIRM (612-208-3476).






Disclaimer: Please read the Terms of Use. This website is advertising, not legal advice. As a lawyer in Minnesota, Aaron Hall and lawyers in his firm are licensed to provide legal services throughout Minnesota, including those in Hennepin County, Ramsey County, Anoka County, Carver County, Dakota County, Scott County, Washington County, Isanti County, and Wright County. Thes' service area includes these Minnesota cities: Albert Lea, Albertville, Andover, Anoka, Apple Valley, Arden Hills, Belle Plaine, Big Lake, Blaine, Bloomington, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Burnsville, Carver, Castle Rock, Champlin, Chanhassen, Chaska, Circle Pines, Cloquet, Columbia Heights, Concoran, Coon Rapids, Cottage Grove, Crystal, Dayton, Delano, Duluth, Eagan, East Bethel, Eden Prairie, Edina, Elk River, Elko New Market, Excelsior, Falcon Heights, Faribault, Farmington, Forest Lake, Fridley, Glencoe, Golden Valley, Ham Lake, Hamel, Hanover, Hastings, Hibbings, Hopkins, Hugo, Inver Grove Heights, Isanti, Jordan, Lake Elmo, Lakeville, Lilydale, Linden Hills, Lino Lakes, Little Canada, Long Lake, Loretto, Mahtomedi, Mankato, Maple Grove, Maple Plain, Maplewood, Medina, Mendota Heights, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Minnetrista, Monticello, Moorhead, Mound, Mounds View, Moundsviews, New Brighton, New Hope, New Port, New Prague, New Ulm, Newport, North Branch, North St. Paul, Northfield, Oak Grove, Oak Park Heights, Oakdale, Orono, Osseo, Otsego, Owatonna, Plymouth, Prior Lake, Ramsey, Red Wing, Richfields, Robbinsdale, Rochester, Rockford, Rogers, Rosemount, Roseville, Savage, Shakopee, Shoreview, Shorewood, South St. Pauls, Spring Lake Parks, Spring Park, St. Anthony, St. Bonifacius, St. Cloud, St. Francis, St. Louis Park, St. Michael, St. Paul, St. Paul Parks, St. Peter, Stillwater, Twin Citiess, Vadnais Heights, Victoria, Waconia, Watertown, Wayzata, West St. Paul, White Bear Lake, Woodbury, and Wyoming, Minnesota.