Estates

We can help you plan your estate, protect your assets, and advise you on preserving your financial structure. Our experts will help you draft wills and trusts to ensure orderly administration of assets for your care or your children’s security in the event of your untimely death. We assist you in long term estate planning and administration, including:

Last Wills & Testaments
The Law Offices Of Sue A. Greer will help you prepare the necessary legal documents that provides your wishes to be followed after your death. A will controls the division of your individually owned assets and appoints guardians for children. In your will an executor is nominated to manage the distribution of those assets. If you die without a will or a trust, your assets will be distributed by the law of intestacy – basically the state decides who inherits your money. A will ensures that your individually owned assets go to the individuals that you want. 

Living Wills
A living will is a legal document that a person uses to make known his or her wishes regarding life prolonging medical treatments. It can also be referred to as an advance directive, health care directive, or a physician's directive. It is important to have a living will as it informs your health care providers and your family about your desires for medical treatment in the event that you become incapacitated or are not able to speak for yourself.

Trusts
A trust is a legal entity that manages your assets during your life and after your death. It provides a means of managing your affairs if you become disabled. It allows your estate to avoid probate. It can be difficult to conceptually grasp the concept of a trust; the best way to understand a trust is to think of it as a company. The person who starts the trust is the settlor, in a business this would be the investor. The person who runs the trust is the trustee, in business this would be the CEO or president. The person who receives money from the trust is the beneficiary, in a business this would be the customer receiving services or the owners receiving money back from the company. One person can be the settlor, trustee and beneficiary of a trust. Trusts allow people to avoid probate, preserve money for their children, and in some cases protect against creditors and estate taxes, and avoid having the nursing home take your money.
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Will Contests
A will contest, in the law of property, is a formal objection raised against the validity of a will, based on the contention that the will does not reflect the actual intent of the testator (the party who made the will) or that the will is otherwise invalid. Will contests generally focus on the assertion that the testator lacked testamentary capacity, was operating under an insane delusion, or was subject to undue influence or fraud. A will may be challenged in its entirety, or only in part.
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Estate Planning
The Law Offices Of Sue A. Greer helps in the process of anticipating and arranging for the disposal of an estate during a person's life. We help to eliminate uncertainties over the administration of a probate and maximize the value of the estate by reducing taxes and other expenses. However, the ultimate goal of estate planning is determined by the specific goals of the client and may be as simple or complex as the client's needs dictate.

Estate Administration
Administration of an estate on death arises if the deceased is legally intestate, meaning they did not leave a will, or some assets are not disposed of by their will. We help distribute the estate of the deceased according to the rules laid down by statute and the common trust.
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Powers Of Attorney
The Law Offices Of Sue A. Greer works with you to establish a legal document giving a person of your choosing the power to act in your place. In case you ever become mentally incapacitated, you'll need what are known as "durable" powers of attorney for medical care and finances.
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Guardianship
We work with the Southern Maryland laws that provide that the parents of a minor child are the legal guardians of that child, and that the parents can designate who shall become the child's legal guardian in the event of death, subject to the approval of the court.
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Probate
Specializing in probate law, we help the representing Executor/Administrator resolving all claims and distribution of the deceased person's property under a will.
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