Experienced Victoria Lawyer for Your Estate Planning Needs
Estate planning needs a comprehensive approach to implementing your financial and medical wishes and looking out for your family by protecting your assets. Stephen Rigsby, Attorney at Law, is a Texas estate planning board-certified lawyer with over 30 years of experience.
Whether you are concerned about reducing estate taxes, ensuring the responsible management of your estate or making your medical wishes known, contact Stephen Rigsby for skilled legal assistance.
Preparing Key Documents Under Texas Law
Stephen Rigsby has helped many clients in the Victoria, Texas, region draft the following estate planning documents, often in conjunction with each other:
- Wills: Without a will, a Court must determine who your heirs are and what they will inherit. These decisions may not reflect your wishes. With a will, you can decide for yourself how your property is distributed and who will wind up your affairs.
- Testamentary Trusts: If you would like all or some of your Estate to benefit a minor or someone else who is incapable of handling financial affairs responsibly, you can use a testamentary trust to appoint a responsible person as your beneficiary's trustee.
- Living Trusts: A Living Trust allows you to control your property during your life and have it distributed and managed in accordance with your wishes when you die. This instrument helps you avoid the costly, time-consuming and public Probate process and can be structured to reduce or avoid estate taxes.
- Family Limited Partnerships: The Family Limited Partnership is an increasingly popular Estate Planning option that can protect your assets from creditors and lawsuits so they can be preserved to benefit your family and reduce estate taxes.
- Powers of Attorney: Powers of attorney allow you to appoint someone else to make important medical and financial decisions on your behalf if you are incapacitated.
- Living Wills: While a Medical Power of Attorney gives someone else the authority to make certain decisions on your behalf, the issue of life-saving measures is a decision you can make yourself through the separate mechanism of a Living Will.
Estate planning is a complex and important body of a law that is constantly changing. Contact Stephen Rigsby to get a skilled, experienced lawyer who will work closely with you on your estate plan.
Stephen Rigsby, Attorney at Law
1501 E Mockingbird Ln Ste 405
P.O. Box 3683
Victoria, TX 77903-3683
Telephone: 361-576-2733
Fax: 361-576-2928
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