Estate and Trust Law
Estate and Trust Law
Estate and Trust Attorney in LaGrange, GA
A well-designed and carefully drafted trust or estate plan ensures your estate passes to whom you want, when you want and in the manner you have chosen. Attorney Rod R. Skiff has offered families peace of mind by skillfully and carefully planning for the transfer of assets upon the death or incapacity of a loved one.
We know that no two families are the same – and thus no two estate plans are the same. Rod Skiff holds advanced degrees in business, accounting and tax. This diverse combination of expertise means our firm is highly skilled at identifying your family’s unique challenges and helping you reach your estate planning objectives. Many times, we offer solutions you may not even know are available.
Our experienced Georgia estate planning lawyers help individuals and families who have an array of different needs when it comes to estate planning. With a robust and diverse business law practice and clientele, we are especially adept at helping entrepreneurs and business owners, executives, business leaders and multigenerational families with the unique estate planning issues most relevant to their situations.
Rod R. Skiff's estate planning practice sectors include:
- Asset Protection
- Estate Tax Planning
- Gift Tax Planning
- Wills & Trusts
Planning for the Unexpected
Estate planning is not only concerned with the distribution of assets after a person passes away. Equally important is making sure that individuals are taken care of during their lifetimes in the event of any temporary or permanent incapacity. When injury, illness or other factors render a person incapable of taking care of oneself or making decisions regarding one’s finances, healthcare and legal affairs, it may fall to the immediate family members to seek a legal guardianship or decide among themselves how important decisions regarding the individual should be made. Even in the best situations where family members do not disagree about what decisions should be made, forcing these difficult decisions on loved ones during a trying time can be especially stressful and traumatic. They may also not be the decisions you would want for yourself if you could communicate your wishes. Through the right combination of durable powers of attorney, advance healthcare directives and other legal instruments, the attorneys at Rod R. Skiff's make sure that in the event you ever become incapacitated, decisions regarding your healthcare and finances will be made according to your wishes by someone you trust.