Accomplished Washington, D.C. and Maryland wills, trusts, and estate planning lawyer. A caring attorney.
We Can Help You Plan for the Future
Preserving your assets and ensuring that your wishes are carried out - these are important goals. At the Law Offices of George A. Teitelbaum, we help clients throughout Washington, D.C., and Maryland preserve and distribute the fruits of a lifetime's worth of hard work. Through our wills, trusts, and estate planning practice, we help ensure that our clients' beneficiaries get what is due them and that money and property is fairly, efficiently and optimally distributed and disposed of according to the decedent's wishes. If you have an estate planning concern, contact us.
What is estate planning and why is it important for you?
Estate taxes, probate proceedings, expenses, delays... Proper estate planning enables you to minimize or avoid all of these, and to have your assets promptly and efficiently distributed according to your wishes. At our law offices, we help clients minimize the effects of a costly and time-consuming probate process, reduce the amount of estate taxes they need to pay, and draw up instruments that will speed up and ease the distribution and disposition of their assets. More specifically, a well-prepared estate plan can help our clients achieve the following:
- Reduce taxes on your estate
- Minimize expenses
- Choose executors/trustees for your estate
- Provide for your immediate family
- Get your property to beneficiaries quickly
- Provide for other relatives who need help and guidance
- Plan for your incapacity
- Ease the strain on your family
- Make sure your business continues to run smoothly
- Help a favorite cause
Our wills, trusts, and estate planning practice includes services related to wills (simple and complex), trusts (revocable and irrevocable), conservatorships, guardianships, testamentary trusts for minors or for estate planning, living trusts for estate planning, durable powers of attorney for health or financial, health care proxies, living wills, and health care directives.
Determining Goals, Drawing Up Plans
At the Law Offices of George A. Teitelbaum, we can help you determine what your goals are regarding your estate, and we will draw up the proper legal documents to achieve those goals. We strive to provide the best possible solution for every client's unique needs. We help people who want to distribute their accumulated assets, and we help people who are just starting out on the road to financial stability. We have the experience, the skills, and the knowledge to tailor-fit solutions to your estate planning needs.
Some Helpful Links:
Facts and Fiction Behind Claims for Living Trusts
Financial Inventory and Planning Worksheet
Guide to Common Estate and Elder Law Terminology
Guide to Health Care Powers of Attorney
More on Revocable Living Trusts
Contact Us for a free initial consultation.
Wills ▪ Trusts ▪ Living Wills ▪ Durable Power of Attorney ▪ Elder Law
We offer a wide variety of estate and elder law services for clients throughout the District of Columbia and Maryland. For more information, please contact our law office today. Attorney George Teitelbaum also assists clients located out of state that may have legal issues in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
