Experienced Planning For Your Future

When a person with significant assets passes on, their loved ones will have a lot of questions about what happens next. Without answers, the decedent’s assets may wind up with the wrong person or their family could get caught up in significant infighting. Instead of leaving your loved ones with more questions than answers after your passing, give them the answers they are looking for with proper estate planning.

At the Marietta office of Bafas Law, P.C., we help clients across Metro Atlanta and throughout Georgia protect their best interests in their estate planning. Instead of offering you a basic estate plan that anyone can get, we take the time to develop a plan based on your unique needs and challenges. We have more than 10 years of legal experience, and we are excited to let our skills protect your plans.

What Your Plan Should Include

While every estate plan should be unique, they should all consider some key factors, including wills, trusts, and the Georgia Advance Directives For Health Care (ADHs).

Wills And Trusts

These documents are critical in passing on your assets to friends and family. While wills offer standard planning to pass on your inheritance, trusts can grant you more control over how they disperse. For example, while a will passes on inheritance at your passing, a trust allows you to decide when and how the assets change ownership, and you can even develop trusts in a way that minimizes tax liability for your beneficiaries.

Georgia Advance Directives For Health Care

In 2007, Georgia Law replaced their living will and durable powers of attorney laws with the ADH, combining the two into a single document in the process. An ADH lets you appoint someone as your medical agent to make medical decisions when you cannot, confirm your end-of-life treatment wishes, and make decisions about your post-death process regarding autopsy requests, being an organ donor, and how you want your remains to be processed.

Building A Plan That Meets Your Needs

We are fluent in the state laws surrounding estate planning, and use that knowledge to help you craft a plan that provides you with the exact coverage you are looking for. Whether you have not updated your estate plan in some time or you need to make your first estate plan, we are here to help. No matter how complex your estate may be, we can help you plan around significant assets like retirement and investment accounts, owned businesses, multiple properties and substantial finances.

Start Planning Today

Estate planning often intersects with other legal areas like family law and civil litigation, and we are prepared to help you through all of your legal needs, starting with your estate planning and probate needs. From restructuring a business to developing a prenuptial agreement, we are here to help you prepare for tomorrow.

Now is always the best time to prepare your estate plan or update it after a major life change like a marriage or divorce. If you are ready to meet with a law firm you can come back to for life with your estate planning needs, contact us by calling 404-594-2738 or emailing us here.