Madeira Beach Estate Planning Attorney
Fortify the Financial Future of Your Family
Estate planning is often misconceived as a far-off task to start during retirement. In reality, estate planning is something that should be done early in adulthood to protect yourself, your family, and your assets in the event of an emergency. HKH Elder Law offers estate planning services with erudite attorneys dedicated to protecting your future.
Start today to protect tomorrow. Call our attorneys for a free consultation: (727) 240-2350.
Why Should I Start Thinking About Estate Planning Now?
As soon as you begin to acquire property, assets, and dependents, you should consider how to keep it all safe if something happens to you. Estate planning achieves this goal. By estate planning, you are creating guidelines for how to care for everything—who receives custody of your kids, who is listed as beneficiaries on your different accounts and life insurance or retirement plans, how your assets are distributed and more. By having these plans in place, you can enjoy some peace of mind knowing that all is accounted for should there be an emergency.
Should I Have a Will Or a Trust?
Ideally, both. Trusts and wills can be used to accomplish different things. Using them in tandem is a way to cover all of your bases.
Trusts are an excellent way to transfer ownership of an asset to an heir while you are still alive. By doing so, you reap many benefits, including:
- Avoiding probate
- Making it difficult to contest or call for a redistribution of the asset
- Having more control over when and how your assets are dispersed
- Having more control over who has access to your assets
- Reducing estate taxes on your transferred property
- (Usually) avoiding publication of the trust unlike a will going through probate
Overall, a trust offers some attractive reasons to include it as part of your estate plan. A will can be a powerful sidekick to the trust and make for a more wholistic estate plan. Some matters you can handle with a will include:
- Naming an executor of your will
- Naming a guardian for your children or pets
- Recording any wishes for burial
By combining the two, you’re maximizing your ability to guarantee that your life continues and ends the way you decide is best. Beyond personal decisions affecting yourself, you can effectively control how your assets are divided and distributed. Our estate planning attorneys are ready to help the Madeira Beach community create and protect the ideal future for you and your family.
To see how you can protect your family’s future, contact our elder law attorneys today.
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"HKH Elder Law guided us through the complications patiently, and efficiently. The words that come to mind are professionalism, flexibility, people skills, integrity, and responsiveness. Great experience - highly recommend!"HKH Elder Law guided us through the complications patiently, and efficiently. The words that come to mind are professionalism, flexibility, people skills, integrity, and responsiveness. Great experience - highly recommend!- Marcia F.
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"Experts in their field. Very knowledgeable. Offer free zoom meetings that cover so many subjects including Medicare, Medicaid, will, estate planning."Experts in their field. Very knowledgeable. Offer free zoom meetings that cover so many subjects including Medicare, Medicaid, will, estate planning.”Experts in their field. Very knowledgeable. Offer free zoom meetings that cover so many subjects inc- Ursula R.
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"She and her entire team truly care about their clients."She and her entire team truly care about their clients.- Chelsie L.
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"They will make things clear and simple for you."As a family member who has provided support for seven family members as they moved through the continuum of being healthy and independent to requiring end-of-life care, I can heartily recommend the Hill and Kinsella Law Firm. I was referred to April Hill by my own stellar estate planning attorney when I needed assistance with my parents in the Tampa Bay area. I couldn't be more pleased with the entire process for creating updated documents to the execution of those documents to follow-up counsel in applying the documents. If you are considering an attorney/firm to help you with this part of your life or are a family member who needs guidance, call Hill and Kinsella. They will make things clear and simple for you.- Tracy S.
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"April's knowledge, professionalism along with her warm and caring understanding of the emotions involved in trying to do the very best for my mother was exemplary!"April rescued me with helping my mother transition into an assisted living facility plus deal with an unruly family member. April's knowledge, professionalism along with her warm and caring understanding of the emotions involved in trying to do the very best for my mother was exemplary! My family and I will forever be grateful to April! My husband and I have done our will through April and we always recommend her to friends and family. God bless you and your very capable staff!- Patricia C.
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"I would recommend their firm for the best Elder Law professional service..."Over the years Hill & Kinsella have professionally assisted with my legal needs and I would recommend their firm for the best Elder Law professional service in Pinellas County.- Michael C.
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"[April] has well-advised me and I am grateful for her knowledge and help for my future."Thanks to April Hill, my sisters and I were able to better take care of Mom and when she passed, handle her affairs more easily. Now that it was time for me to revise my will, I came to April. She has well-advised me and I am grateful for her knowledge and help for my future. When the time comes that my family has to deal with my estate, their work will be easier for this planning. Having settled estates for two of my relatives myself, I can provide my loved ones with an easier time taking care of things when I am gone. Thanks, April for your help!- Ginger P.
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"Wonderful Services"April and her team were asked to take over my mother's estate as my previous attorney was unable to finish. April & Team were wonderful. This was not a run of the mill probate. There were several issues left hanging by my previous attorney and April cleared everything up quickly. Hill & Kinsella is a great law firm. I'm so grateful our paths crossed.- Former Client
Why Hire HKH Elder Law
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We Are Client Focused & Results Driven
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When You Hire Us, You Get The Whole Team
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You Can Expect Fast Response Times