A well-drafted estate plan can protect your family from some of the worst effects of losing a loved one.
Our estate planning attorneys can help you put together a comprehensive Georgia estate plan that will allow you to plan for the future of your family. In many cases, we can minimize the need for probate, an often expensive, time-consuming, and complex process.
The core of any estate plan, a valid Georgia Will, allows you to determine who receives your personal property and real estate through the Probate process. More importantly, a Will also allows you to nominate a guardian for any minor children you have.
A valid Georgia Power of Attorney allows you to have a person, typically a spouse/domestic partner, close friend, or family member to manage your affairs should you be either temporarily or permanently incapacitated.
The Georgia Advance Directives for Healthcare allows you to decide what medical treatment options, if any, you would like should you become incapacitated. It also allows you to choose a person to exercise those decisions for you. Moreover, you can use this document to authorize unmarried partners, friends, or other people not legally related to you to visit you in the hospital or ride in the ambulance with you.