Estate Planning for Tomorrow, Today

Approachable and Personable Foundational Estate Planning

McEnerney Law is an estate planning firm located in Arlington Heights, IL serving the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. Our sole focus is providing objective estate planning counsel to help clients identify, protect, manage, and distribute their assets upon incapacity or death.

We take a holistic approach to help you better plan your estate. As an independent, flat-fee law firm, focused solely on estate planning, we are built to be different from your traditional law firm or self-drafting estate planning kit. Our goal is to guide you through the estate planning process so that the legal documents we draft accurately align with your intentions. Our mission is collaboration, transparency, and informed decision making.

When you are creating your estate plan you need a lawyer who will provide counsel about the major milestones for you and your family. Some of these events are easily foreseen, such as retirement, or college planning. Other life events, while not necessarily foreseeable or easy to discuss, still need to be addressed. Things like an unexpected health issue, sudden incapacity, or the unfortunate inevitable, death. Our purpose is to facilitate these difficult discussions, simplify the estate planning process, and create legal documents that address your concerns.

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Incapacity Planning

Unexpected events, unfortunately, can render us incapacitated. Whether mental or physical, incapacity can cause great strain on those tasked to care for us. Properly drafted legal documents such as Living Wills, Durable Powers of Attorney, Financial Powers of Attorney, and HIPPA Authorizations provide control and guidance for those caring for us when we cannot care for ourselves.

Wills

The foundation of every estate plan. A purposefully drafted will states who inherits specific assets and who inherits the rest. For those with minor children, a will appoints successor guardians and avoids further court intervention. A will also appoints the personal representative who administers and manages the decedent’s estate.

Trusts

Trusts are often an important part of an estate plan. When properly executed and funded, a trust operates as a distinct entity according to the terms of the trust agreement. Trusts will name successor trustees, specify how disability is determined, and are more readily accepted by thrid-parties than an agent under a power of attorney. A trust based plan can also avoid probate and retain privacy.

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If you would like to learn more about how we can help you, give us a call, send an email, or schedule a consultation.

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