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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.
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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.
We design the plan with you and confirm one flat fee in writing.
Every document comes with a plain-English summary so you know exactly what it does.
We handle witnesses and notary, record your deeds, and give you a binder with written instructions.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tell us what you want to happen and we'll build the plan around it.
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives combined to avoid probate completely while protecting your family's future.
Answer three quick questions. Every plan is a flat fee, confirmed in writing after your free 15-minute call.
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Plain-English guides written by our attorney for each state's actual rules, with current dollar limits, timelines, and fees. Read them free.
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.
Estate plans, Medicaid trusts, probate in every chancery court, heir property.
Mississippi guides →Estate plans, Medicaid trusts, and successions by affidavit, simple possession, or administration.
Louisiana guides →Medicaid trusts, probate, DC estate tax, and LGBTQIA+ estate planning.
D.C. guides →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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