Crown Point Indiana Estate Planning, Probate and Living Trusts Attorneys John M. O'Drobinak, P.C.

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Estate Planning for the GLBT Community
Guidance and assistance with Living Trusts, Health Care Powers of Attorney, and Asset Distribution.

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The Problems Estate Planning Solves for the GLBT Community

A GLBT couple can avoid numerous problems through proper estate planning:

A Living Trust can establish the client's domestic partner as the trustee, i.e. manager of the client's affairs (if he or she so desires) if the client becomes incapacitated through illness or accident.
The Health Care Power of Attorney can also avoid the potential problems of the client not maintaining control over his or her health care decisions and the domestic partner not having access to his or her partner during a period of incapacitation.
A proper estate plan will ensure the client's assets are distributed to whom he or she wants, when and how he or she desires.
The Living Trust guarantees privacy, through avoidance of probate and its process of opening court records. This would be beneficial for any clients and their domestic partners who wish for their relationship to remain confidential.
Proper estate planning assures that any surviving minor children are raised by the person designated in the plan.
Finally, although there are no spousal benefits for GLBT couples (compared to those of heterosexual married couples) proper estate planning will ensure correct strategies are used to avoid penalties, extra taxation when possible, and the court and attorney costs of probate.

GLBT Estate Planning & Related Topics

The Problems Estate Planning Solves For The GLBT Community
Find out why estate planning for GLBT couples is so important.

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