We are a boutique law firm specializing in estate planning and trust administration. Founder Jon B. Gandelot began practicing law in 1969 and has concentrated his practice in estate planning and estate administration for the last 20 years. If you are a current client, thank you for giving us the opportunity to fulfill your legal needs.
As a firm, we take pride in tailoring our services to our clients' individual needs. We customize each estate plan and take extraordinary measures to ensure that it will perform as designed. We service all counties throughout Michigan, including Wayne County, Macomb County and Oakland County. We also coordinate the individual planning needs of our clients across the United States and internationally.
As a firm, we take pride in tailoring our services to our clients' individual needs. We customize each estate plan and take extraordinary measures to ensure that it will perform as designed. We service all counties throughout Michigan, including Wayne County, Macomb County and Oakland County. We also coordinate the individual planning needs of our clients across the United States and internationally.
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While nobody wants to think about death or disability, establishing an estate plan is one of the most important steps you can take to protect yourself and your loved ones. Proper estate planning not only puts you in charge of your finances, it can also spare your loved ones of the expense, delay and frustration associated with managing your affairs when you pass away or become disabled.
You've worked hard your whole life to provide for your family and make your loved ones more secure. Without advanced estate planning strategies, much of the significant assets you have accumulated may end up with the IRS and state taxing authorities.
Our firm regularly assists affluent families with such sophisticated planning strategies as Family Limited Partnerships or Limited Liability Companies, Personal Residence Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts and a wide range of charitable gifting techniques to reduce Federal Estate Taxes, Gift Taxes and Generation Skipping Transfer Taxes.
Our firm regularly assists affluent families with such sophisticated planning strategies as Family Limited Partnerships or Limited Liability Companies, Personal Residence Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts and a wide range of charitable gifting techniques to reduce Federal Estate Taxes, Gift Taxes and Generation Skipping Transfer Taxes.
When a loved one passes away, his or her estate often goes through a court-managed process called probate or estate administration where the assets of the deceased are managed and distributed. If your loved-one owned his or her assets through a well drafted and properly funded living trust, it is likely that no court-managed administration is necessary, though the successor trustee needs to administer the distribution of the deceased.
If you currently provide care for a child or loved one with special needs (such as mental or physical disabilities), you must have contemplated with concern about what may happen to them when you are no longer able to provide and care for them.
While you can certainly provide that they receive money and assets, such a bequest may prevent them from qualifying for essential benefits under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid programs.However, public monetary benefits provide only for the bare necessities such as food, housing and clothing.
While you can certainly provide that they receive money and assets, such a bequest may prevent them from qualifying for essential benefits under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid programs.However, public monetary benefits provide only for the bare necessities such as food, housing and clothing.
Have you seriously considered what will become of your faithful companion - your beloved pet - upon your death or disability? If not, now is the time. If you don't have a plan that quickly and easily provides for your pet's food, shelter, and care, please keep reading. One of the main goals of estate planning is to provide for your loved ones, and for many of us, "loved ones" includes our pets.
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