McAndrews Law Offices : Estate Planning
McAndrews Law Offices, P.C.

Estate Planning

A carefully designed Estate Plan can provide security and structure for your loved ones, as well as offering the potential for substantial savings on federal and state death taxes. Whether your estate involves only a simple Will or a more complex plan involving trusts designed to offer savings on death taxes and structure for distribution to your family or other beneficiaries, it is important to select an attorney with the ability to address your individual needs.

Depending upon your individual needs, we can devise an estate plan which meets your needs. In the event that a member of your family is an individual with a disability, we have extraordinary experience in designing an appropriate plan to meet the unique requirements involved, including the use of Special Needs Trusts.

Fee Structure for Wills, Trusts and Estate Planning Documents

McAndrews Law Offices is very open about the cost of our professional services. The fees below represent our standard charges which include initial intake with our client, review of existing estate planning documents, a sixty minute consultation with our attorneys, drafting of the necessary documents, and a brief final meeting with staff to execute the documents.  Where additional consultations are necessary in extraordinary cases (only about 5-10% of our cases), hourly charges apply to such additional work.

   
Simple Will Without Trusts $275 each
   
Wills with Trust(s) (including Credit Shelter Trust, Marital Trust, Minors’ Trust,Disclaimer Trust) $350 - 650 each (depending on complexity)
   
Life Insurance Trust (including necessary annual notice documents, letters of instruction, etc.) $750 - 950 each
   
Special Needs Trust – Third Party Funded $600 - 750 each
   
Special Needs Trust – Self-Funded Determined after initial review of
circumstances and consultation with
client – these matters are generally
complex and labor intensive
   
Powers of Attorney $95 each
   
Advance Medical Directive (Living Will)

$75 each

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