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★★★★★Rated 5 stars by families in Mississippi, Louisiana and Washington, D.C.

Real Lawyers. Real Plans. Built Around Your Life.

A licensed attorney who knows your state's laws will learn about your family and the outcomes you want, then build a plan designed to deliver them.

Life gets complicated. There's a plan for that.

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Medicaid, probate, trusts, and more.
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What Trusted Plan Lawyers does

Trusted Plan Lawyers is an estate planning law firm led by attorney Brad M. Williams. We write wills, living trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives; protect homes and savings from nursing-home costs with Medicaid asset protection trusts; and guide families through probate in Mississippi and Washington, D.C., and succession in Louisiana.

Every plan is a flat fee, quoted after a free 15-minute call. You meet with a licensed attorney, not a salesperson, and you leave with documents your family can understand.

How it works

From first call to signed plan in four simple steps.

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Free 15-minute call

Pick your state and a time. Tell a licensed attorney what you want to happen.

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Planning meeting

We design the plan with you and confirm one flat fee in writing.

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Review your drafts

Every document comes with a plain-English summary so you know exactly what it does.

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Sign and relax

We handle witnesses and notary, record your deeds, and give you a binder with written instructions.

Find your plan

What's happening in your life? Let's make a plan.

Prenuptial & Estate Plan

Planning to Marry

A prenuptial agreement prepared as part of your estate plan, so both work together.

A prenup must be signed before the wedding. Start early, and give each of you time to review it.

Couples Protection Plan

Getting Married

Wills or a joint trust, powers of attorney, and beneficiary updates for your new marriage.

Default beneficiaries change when you get married. Hint: it may not all go to your spouse either.

Family Protection Plan

Starting a Family

Wills, guardianship nominations for children, and financial protection strategies.

Your children need protecting if something happens to you. Don't leave it up to the system and the courts.

Long-Term Care Plan

Aging Parents

Medicaid planning, veterans benefits, and asset protection strategies.

With proper planning, they don't have to lose everything if they need long-term care. But it does require you to plan ahead, so start now!

Business Succession Plan

Passing Down Your Business

Business formation, succession planning, and business protection strategies.

What happens to your business if you die? If you don't immediately know the legally binding answer, you need a plan.

Blended Family Plan

Second Marriage or Blended Family

Provide for your spouse without cutting out children from a prior marriage.

Leaving everything to a new spouse can quietly disinherit your own children. A credit shelter trust fixes that.

Real Estate Trust

Owning Real Estate

Hold your home, land, rentals, or out-of-state property in a trust.

Property in two states can mean two probates. One trust keeps it all out of court.

Special Needs Plan

A Child with a Disability

Leave money to a loved one without costing them SSI or Medicaid.

An inheritance left outright can end benefits overnight. A third-party special needs trust protects both.

Retirement Plan

Retiring or Nearing Retirement

Update beneficiaries, plan for long-term care, and protect your savings.

A Medicaid trust has to be in place five years before care is needed. Retirement is the time to start.

Incapacity Plan

A New Diagnosis

Powers of attorney, health care directives, and a trust someone can manage for you.

Once capacity is lost, your family needs a court guardianship. Sign now while you still can.

Divorce Update Plan

Getting Divorced

Remove a former spouse from your will, trust, and beneficiary forms.

Retirement accounts and life insurance follow the beneficiary form, not your divorce decree. Update them.

LGBTQIA+ Family Plan

Protecting Your Partner

Married, registered, or not: make sure your partner and chosen family are protected.

Without documents, the law may hand decisions to relatives you would never choose.

Estate Tax Plan

A Larger Estate

Credit shelter trusts and advanced tax planning to reduce federal and state estate tax.

The federal estate tax takes 40% above the exemption. Planning ahead can keep much more in your family.

Single Person Plan

Single or No Children

Choose who decides for you and who inherits, instead of the state.

Without a plan, distant relatives may inherit and a court picks who manages your care.

Essential Foundation Plan

Starting Your Plan Early

The essential documents in place now, before you accumulate assets or issues arise.

Start early and keep it up to date. It's far easier than planning after life gets complicated.

Not sure which plan fits?

That's our job.

Tell us what you want to happen and we'll build the plan around it.

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Our Gold Standard Plan

Complete Probate Prevention Plan

Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives combined to avoid probate completely while protecting your family's future.

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Flat-fee price finder

What would your plan cost?

Answer three quick questions. Every plan is a flat fee, confirmed in writing after your free 15-minute call.

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Which state do you live in?

Free estate check

What happens to what you own if you do nothing?

Enter rough values. Nothing is saved or sent. We'll show what your state's default rules would do with your assets, and what a nursing-home stay would cost your savings.

Goes through probate
$365,000
Typical time in court
6–12 months
Who inherits under Mississippi law with no will

Your spouse and each child take equal shares. With three children, your spouse receives one-fourth, and the children own three-fourths of the house.

Your family cannot sell the house or close accounts until the court appoints someone and the creditor period runs. Court filings and inventories are public record.

With a revocable living trust, the $365,000 above passes privately to the people you choose, with no court case.

Estimate only, not legal advice. Retirement accounts and life insurance are assumed to have a named beneficiary.

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Free guides library

Know what to expect before you ever sit down with a lawyer.

Plain-English guides written by our attorney for each state's actual rules, with current dollar limits, timelines, and fees. Read them free.

Medicaid & long-term care

Medicaid Trust Guide: Mississippi

MS

How an irrevocable Medicaid trust protects your home and savings from nursing-home costs, and why it must be set up five years ahead.

Nursing home, per month
$9,430
Look-back period
60 months
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Medicaid & long-term care

Medicaid Trust Guide: Louisiana

LA

Louisiana's Medicaid rules, the 60-month look-back, and how a trust keeps the family home out of estate recovery.

Nursing home, per month
$7,200
Look-back period
60 months
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Medicaid & long-term care

Medicaid Trust Guide: Washington, D.C.

DC

D.C. Medicaid and the EPD waiver, what counts as an asset, and how a trust protects a D.C. home's equity.

Nursing home, per month
~$12,000
Look-back period
60 months
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Probate

Mississippi Probate Guide

MS

The four ways a Mississippi estate is settled in chancery court, the 90-day creditor period, and who inherits without a will.

Typical timeline
6–12 months
Creditor claim period
90 days
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Succession

Louisiana Succession Guide

LA

How a Louisiana succession works: community property, forced heirship, the surviving spouse's usufruct, and the judgment of possession.

Administered succession
6–12 months
Forced heirs
Age 23 or under
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Probate

District of Columbia Probate Guide

DC

How a D.C. estate is settled in the Probate Division, the 90-day will filing rule, the six-month creditor window, spousal rights, and the DC estate tax.

Typical timeline
9–12 months
Creditor claim period
6 months
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Disability planning

Special Needs Trust Guide

All states

How to leave money to a loved one with a disability without costing them SSI or Medicaid eligibility.

Protects
SSI & Medicaid
Best funded by
Will or trust
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LGBTQIA+ planning

LGBTQIA+ Estate Planning Guide

DC

Married, registered, unregistered, and single: what District law does by default and how to replace it with your own plan.

DC estate tax exemption
$4,988,400
Format
96-page book
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Estate planning

DC Credit Shelter Trust Guide

DC

How a DC married couple uses both estate tax exemptions, because DC does not let a surviving spouse inherit the unused one.

DC estate tax exemption
$4,988,400
Tax saved, $12M couple
$750,422
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Estate planning

Mississippi Credit Shelter Trust Guide

MS

How a Mississippi married couple protects the second half of the estate for the survivor and the children, and shelters growth from federal estate tax.

Mississippi estate tax
None
Tax saved, $30M couple
$3,000,000
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Estate planning

Louisiana Credit Shelter Trust Guide

LA

How a Louisiana couple protects each spouse’s half of the community for the survivor and the children, with usufructs and forced heirship handled correctly.

Louisiana estate tax
None
Tax saved, $30M couple
$3,000,000
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Probate avoidance

Mississippi Revocable Living Trust Guide

MS

How a funded living trust keeps a Mississippi family out of chancery court, keeps the homestead exemption, and lets a successor trustee step in without a conservatorship.

Probate attorney fees
$4,000+
Court filings with a trust
None
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Probate avoidance

Louisiana Revocable Living Trust Guide

LA

How a funded living trust keeps Louisiana property out of a succession and an interdiction, with community property and forced heirs handled correctly.

Executor’s statutory fee
2.5%
Court filings with a trust
None
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Probate avoidance

DC Revocable Living Trust Guide

DC

How a funded living trust keeps a DC estate out of the Probate Division, with no bond, no six-month creditor wait, and no public file.

Probate cannot close for
6+ months
Court filings with a trust
None
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Asset protection

Mississippi Asset Protection Trust Guide

MS

How a Mississippi qualified disposition trust shields part of what you own from future lawsuits, what you keep, what you give up, and the four rules it must follow.

Creditor window
2 years
Required insurance
$1,000,000
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Not sure where to start?

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LGBTQIA+
Estate Planning Guide
Now a book

LGBTQIA+ Estate Planning Guide, by Brad Williams

A 96-page guide for couples, partners, and single adults in the District of Columbia. Read it free here, or buy the paperback on Amazon.

Meet your lawyer

You talk to a licensed attorney from the first call.

Brad M. Williams

Managing Attorney & Estate Planning Specialist

Brad has spent more than twenty years helping families plan for incapacity, long-term care, and everything they want to pass on. He wrote every Trusted Plan guide and the LGBTQIA+ Estate Planning Guide.

20+
years in practice
MS · LA · DC
bar admissions
15
published guides
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Where we practice

State-specific plans, from lawyers licensed where you live.

Mississippi

Estate plans, Medicaid trusts, probate in every chancery court, heir property.

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Louisiana

Estate plans, Medicaid trusts, and successions by affidavit, simple possession, or administration.

Louisiana guides →

Washington, D.C.

Medicaid trusts, probate, DC estate tax, and LGBTQIA+ estate planning.

D.C. guides →
Jackson Office: 405 West Parkway Place, Suite 175, Ridgeland, MS 39157 · (844) 544-PLAN
Why families choose us

The care of a law firm. The clarity of a flat fee.

Online forms are cheap until they fail. Hourly firms are thorough until the bill arrives. We built Trusted Plan to give families the best of both.

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Talk with a licensed attorney for 15 minutes. 100% confidential, no obligation.

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