Estate Planning and Administration

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Estate Planning

Customized plans achieve personal goals.

The future may be unknown, but estate planning and administration from Duxstad McDaniel Law Group can bring certainty to concerns that lie ahead. Our services include not only wills and trusts, but also disability planning, asset protection, retirement planning, and succession planning, as well as the transfer and division of estates.

Your estate represents a lifetime of work and achievement. It takes planning to assure that those assets will meet your objectives in the future. The lawyers at Duxstad McDaniel Law Group will develop a customized cost-effective plan tailored to your family’s needs. It will account for unique family dynamics, for instance, or the desire to divide assets in a non-typical way that prepares your family for the future, minimizes potential conflicts, and ensures that all that you’ve built will benefit your loved ones.

If you have an estate planning consultation scheduled, completing one of the following forms in advance will help make the meeting more productive and may help you prepare questions for the attorney:

Estate Administration

Helping ensure your plans are honored.

The loss of a loved one is a trying time for any family.  Knowing how to handle affairs and navigate probate laws doesn’t make the experience any easier.  Duxstad McDaniel Law Group offers start-to-finish estate administration services in a way that ensures the process is as cost-effective and efficient as possible.  From summary proceedings to formal probate, Duxstad McDaniel Law Group can handle every detail of even complex estates involving business operations or farm sales.  Let us help you when help is needed most.

Other Practice Areas

Business & Real Estate

For more than 50 years Duxstad McDaniel Law Group has been helping business people, farmers, real estate investors, retailers and bankers successfully handle their legal matters.

Divorce & Family Law

You can be confident of our expertise in divorce, child support, division of assets, adoptions, termination of parental rights, and other matters.

Civil Litigation

Legal disputes inevitably arise in the course of doing business or managing everyday affairs.

Criminal, OWI and Traffic

We represent persons accused of committing serious crimes, as well as lesser offenses such as domestic abuse, theft and battery.

Personal Injury and Accidents

No one expects an accident or injury, and hardly anyone knows what to do when they happen.

Mediation

Your lawyer-mediator does not represent either of the parties, and cannot provide legal advice, but can educate and inform, guide discussions and draft and file the documents necessary to resolve the case.