The Law Office of Henry J. Kulakowski, Jr. is dedicated to providing comprehensive estate planning services for individuals and their families. We design and implement appropriate plans for the preservation and disposition of family assets and values. We utilize estate planning techniques that are designed to avoid the probate process, reduce taxes, protect assets, preserve family wealth and promote harmony and certainty among family members and heirs. We offer highly personalized estate planning and wealth transfer services to accommodate the needs of our clients, from large estates to those which are more modest. We listen carefully to fully understand each client’s particular family needs and objectives. To achieve those goals, we prepare and provide the following documents and services, among others, for our estate planning clients:
- Last Wills and Testaments
- Trusts
- Revocable Trusts
- Irrevocable Trusts
- Special Needs Trusts
- Pet Trusts
- Insurance and Charitable Trusts
- Retirement Trusts
- Testamentary Trusts
- Durable Powers of Attorney
- HIPAA Releases
- Trust Certifications
- Health Care Surrogate
- Living Wills
- Probate avoidance strategies
- LGBT Planning
- Blended family planning (yours, mine and ours)
- Medicaid planning
- Planning for incapacity
We believe in taking the “team approach” to estate planning. We encourage involvement of our clients’ professional advisors, and invite them to bring those advisors to our conferences. We strive to strengthen those professional relationships. We recognize that estate planning is an ongoing lifetime process since families, estates and the law will change and evolve over time. We are dedicated to making sure our clients’ estate plans evolve with them.