Estate Planning, Wills & Trusts

Ensuring the Security of Your Family

Through Estate Planning, Will and Trust Preparation for Individuals and Businesses in Illinois

You’ve worked hard to provide for your family or build a business and maintain your quality of life. You want to know that all of your hard work will ensure the security of your family. At the Law Offices of Alan H. Klein, I provide estate planning services and prepare wills and trusts to help my clients preserve their wealth, protect their assets from excess taxation, and support their families.

As a Chicagoland business lawyer I work with individuals, as well as business owners and entrepreneurs who choose to utilize my legal services for estate planning as well as their business law matters because they’ve been happy with the quality and service they received.Contact me, Chicagoland estate planning attorney Alan H. Klein, to schedule an appointment. You’ll receive prompt, affordable, and knowledgeable legal assistance that accomplishes your goals.

Why You Need a Will or Trust

When you write a will or establish a trust, you are protecting the future of your family and beneficiaries as well as helping to ensure that your wishes will be carried out. It can be very difficult to handle an estate during a period of grieving. By having your affairs in order, your beneficiaries and executor can rest assured that they have carried out your wishes and correctly distributed your assets. Having an estate plan set up can also help reduce the chance for family conflict during the probating of an estate. By establishing a will or trust, you can:

• Ensure that your assets go to the people you want to inherit them
• Minimize estate tax and/or probate costs
• Ensure your money is used for the purposes you wanted to fund (for example, a college education)
• Reduce family conflict during probate administration
• Provide for guardianship and trustees for your minor childrenAs a Chicagoland attorney, I help people draft simple wills and simple trusts appropriate for families with assets and net worth less than $1.5 million. Take a few hours now to make things easier for your family in the future and ensure your wishes are carried out. Contact my Chicago, Illinois law office to discuss the process of preparing a simple will or trust.

Estate Planning Tools to Resolve Today’s Problems

There are several other estate planning tools that people use to communicate their wishes and give others control of their assets:

Medical Care Decision Making

• Living Will —This document tells family members and medical personnel what kind of medical care you do and don't want in the event of illness
• Power of Attorney for Health Care —This document gives someone else the decision making power to authorize or decline health care for you in the event you are unable to make the decision yourself

Financial Decision Making

• Power of Attorney for Property —This document allows someone to pay your bills, sell real estate, or manage your business affairs if you are out of the country or too ill to manage your own financial affairs

Caring for Children, Elders & Disabled Persons

• Guardianship and Conservatorship —By naming a guardian or conservator for vulnerable persons you ensure that someone can make responsible decisions on their behalf and effectively handle their affairs. This is an essential decision that parents should make when they have children under age 18.Contact a Chicagoland estate planning attorney at the Law Offices of Alan H. Klein. Establishing an estate plan should not be a difficult process. I will help you consider all your legal options and create an estate plan that meets your needs so you can feel confident that you’ve made the right decisions. My office is conveniently located ½ block off Lake Shore Drive.

  Law Offices of Alan H. Klein
  5210 N. Sheridan Rd. 
  Chicago, IL  60640
  Phone: 773-275-0073
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  For 25 years, business law and estate planning attorney Alan H. Klein has been representing clients in Chicagoland area neighborhoods such as Uptown, Edgewater, Lincoln Square, Lakeview, Andersonville, and Lincoln Park, and the communities of Evanston, Skokie, Lincolnwood, Wilmette, Northbrook, and Glenview, Illinois.