Estate Planning and Probate
Providing personal, confidential advice and services for individuals planning their estates, and for spouses, family, and others affected by loss of a loved one. Probate, estates, and estate litigation.
Quick turnaround for simple estate plans.
Everyone should prepare a basic, essential, rational estate plan with the assistance of any attorney licensed in your state.
It is important to prepare wills and estate plans and review and revise them often.
BASIC ESTATE PLANNING SERVICES
Assisting individuals with personal planning in the way of wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and asset protection.
A will is the basic document by which a mentally competent adult lays out wishes for transferring property and addressing other matters. Everyone’s situation is different, and an attorney should always be consulted to discuss issues to be addressed in the person’s will and to complete the will and other needed documents effectively.
ARE YOU MARRIED OR UNMARRIED?
Various rules will apply depending upon whether a person is married or unmarried. It is important to plan carefully in light of rules that apply to your situation.
ESTATES AND PROBATE
Assisting families and personal representatives with settling an estate and distributing property in central Minnesota and throughout the state.
Emphasizing efficient handling of probate and non-probate options for survivors and family members, joint owners, and others.
Property collection and management, insurance, claims administration, bookkeeping, distributions, real estate issues, government claims, family concerns, and other issues.
Commencing probate proceedings where needed, and advising personal representatives.
Managing estate issues, including property transfers, probate and non-probate options, resolving claims, disputed inheritances, real estate, and other matters. Litigation of issues related to probate.
Obtaining and distributing estate property. Professional estate collection and management assures that obligations are fulfilled and heirs receive property as intended and permitted by law.
Always hire a lawyer for these important matters.
ESTATE MEDIATION: MEDIATION OF ESTATE AND PROBATE MATTERS
Families are often devastated by the loss of a loved one and faced with undergoing a process to divide the expenses and assets that often leads to unending anger and bitterness. Resorting to litigation frequently injects division, rancor, and unnecessary expense into the confusion and upset, without contributing to completion of the needed steps.
Mediation can aid the family in understanding and resolving the issues efficiently and without sowing needless contention.
Contact me for further information about mediating estate and probate matters.
Assisting heirs and personal representatives obtain inheritances and administer estates
for more than 20 years
Member, Minnesota State Bar Association Probate, Trusts and Estates Section
Gerald Hasselbrink, Attorney
Phone (320) 251-0222
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