Monthly Archives: September 2025
How Do I Get a Power of Attorney Document?
Are you beginning to think about estate planning in Gwinnett County? While making a will is most likely part of your estate plan, there are several other key documents and estate planning tools that you should also be planning to include in your estate plan. One of those is the power of attorney. As… Read More »
What is a Dynasty Trust?
When you are working on your estate plan with your Norcross estate planning attorney, you may already be planning to establish one or more types of trusts for purposes of asset protection and allowing your loved ones to receive assets without having to go through probate. There are a wide range of trust types… Read More »
How Does a Qualified Personal Residence Trust Work?
Trusts are often part of estate plans in Gwinnett County and throughout Georgia, and they can serve many different purposes — both for the party creating the trust (the grantor) and for the party receiving assets from the trust (the beneficiary). Grantors frequently create trusts so that the assets contained in them can be… Read More »
What is an Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust?
Anyone who is beginning to think about estate planning may be considering the benefit of one or more types of trusts. Trusts are legal tools that allow the person making the trust (the “grantor”) to place assets that will be managed by a trustee and can ultimately be passed onto another party (the “beneficiary”)…. Read More »
How to Prepare for Making an Estate Plan
Making an estate plan is important for adults in Georgia of all ages, regardless of your income level or your relative health. Many people assume that estate planning is all about deciding who to leave your property to when you die. While making decisions about who will inherit your assets is one component of… Read More »
Estate Planning and Retirement
Are you entering retirement, or planning to retire soon? If you do not already have an estate plan, now is the time to sit down with an estate planning attorney in Norcross. Not only can estate planning allow you to make decisions about who will inherit your tangible and intangible property, but it will… Read More »
Should I Create a Revocable or Irrevocable Trust?
Many estate plans in Georgia include trusts, and there are various kinds of trusts that have different purposes and benefits. All trusts that are created in Gwinnett County are either revocable or irrevocable trusts. Within those two broad categories a range of other types of trusts exist. If you are considering the establishment of… Read More »
How to Plan Ahead for Health Care Decisions
Do you have plans in place to ensure that your health care wishes are honored in the event that you become incapacitated and cannot express your wishes yourself? Many people do not realize that this type of planning is an important component of estate planning in Georgia that all adults should consider. In order… Read More »
3 Simple Ways to Avoid Probate Costs
The bad news: When a person dies owning property in their sole name without a beneficiary, their loved ones will have to go through a court-supervised process called probate to transfer the property out of the deceased person’s name and into the name of intended beneficiaries or heirs at law. Going through probate court… Read More »
