Estate Planning Services in Mechanicsburg, PA
Our planning model is designed to guide you in making informed legal and financial decisions, ensuring that you have a plan in place to protect your loved ones from court disputes and conflicts after your passing.
Our Approach
We know how deeply you care for your family and want to ensure they have a clear plan with a trusted advisor to help them when something happens to you.
Below are documents used to execute your plan:.
- Child Safeguarding
- Trust Document
- "Pour Over" Will
- Health Care Directive
- Financial Power of Attourney and / or General Power of Attourney
- Living Will
- Memorial Wishes
Please do not do this by yourself. Many plans fail because individuals do not realize their specific and individual needs.
Three Powerful Ways Your Plan Protects Your Family
Preserving Your Privacy
Probate court proceedings are open to the public, which means that personal matters are available to anyone who wishes to access them.
Complete Control
Lacking an estate plan means leaving crucial decisions — legal, financial, and medical — in the hands of a judge. It's vital to take charge of your affairs by documenting who will make these decisions on your behalf in advance.
Cover All Scenarios
Our plans help to cover all contingencies your loved ones may face, specific to your family dynamics and assets. Our planning process educates you on how we protect everyone and everything you love so together we can ensure your estate plan comprehensively covers your unique situation.
What We Do
We help you to create a personalized plan that includes elements of all of the following, depending on what is best for you and your family. We have thoughtfully packaged what we do into customizable options for you and your family, and all of our fees are flat-rate and agreed to in advance so there are no surprises.
Wills, Trusts, and General Powers of Attorney
Health Care Directives and Medical Powers of Attorney
Guardianship Nominations
Asset Protection Planning
Trust Administration
At JAL Law Group, we prioritize preventive estate planning strategies that are specifically designed to avoid the probate process and its accompanying delays, court filings, and potential conflicts. We do not accept cases involving probate administration. Our commitment is to safeguard your family’s future and privacy, not to manage estates in court.
You Don't Want To End Up A Statistic
Dying without a Will means a probate judge makes decisions for your family, including potentially who should be guardian of your minor children.
When you do not leave a current inventory of your assets that your family can easily find when something happens, your assets may go unclaimed.
Probate is a lengthy process, with a wide range of time. On average, families spend 9 to 18 months in probate, all avoidable.