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Welcome. Puget Sound Law is a local Seattle law firm dedicated to providing clients with
high quality, personal, and affordable legal services and representation.
We focus our
practice of law primarily on the areas of Estate Planning, Estate Settlement, and Small & Family Business.
This website is intended to answer your initial questions about the legal services
we offer and the process involved with each of our areas of legal practice.
Estate Planning
What is Estate Planning?
Estate planning often involves preparing a client's Last Will and Testament.
However, a proper estate plan can and should do much more.
Puget Sound Law's estate planning services
can assist clients with the following:
handling financial affairs
and manage assets during an incapacity with a durable power of attorney
ensuring that health care
wishes are known and carried out with health care directives and
health care power of attorneys
ensuring that upon death, assets are preserved for future generations
and are given to the intended heirs and beneficiaries
providing for the care of minor children by appointing guardians
protecting inheritances of minors by creating trusts
Without a proper estate plan, surviving family
members and heirs may encounter difficulties or unwanted
surprises when handling an estate.
Basic wills and common estate planning documents are
available from Puget Sound Law on a flat fee basis. Flat fee documents may include a will, basic trusts for
purposes such as the support of a surviving spouse or
minor children, a
durable power of attorney for financial affairs, and
health care documents. More sophisticated or complex
documents, such as planning to avoid estate taxes, are prepared on an hourly basis. Discounts
are often available for couples interested in joint planning.
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Probate & Estate Settlement
Estate Settlement may include probate, administering
a trust, or other alternative procedures. The
process necessary often depends upon each estate and the
assets, heirs, circumstances, and whether an estate plan
was prepared.
What is Probate?
Probate is simply a court-supervised legal process for
transferring legal ownership of property to the proper
heirs when an owner dies. Probate ensures that the
decease person's heirs are located and property is
distributed after any outstanding debts are satisfied.
This process can protect the heirs and estate from
unknown liabilities.
Washington State allows for one of the simplest and
cost-effective probate procedures in the nation.
Whether a will was left or not, Puget Sound Law can help
the steps required and the legal process involved may be
determined and handled more efficiently and economically
with the assistance of an attorney from the beginning.
Puget Sound Law can assist you with seeing that a fair
and proper transfer of assets is made after the death of
a family member or loved one. Puget Sound Law can
help you with starting or closing a probate, handling
and avoiding any inheritance disputes, carrying out the
terms of a trust, or fulfilling the last wishes of of
the family member or loved one.
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Small & Family Businesses
Small business owners and family operated businesses
should protect their personal assets and create a
business structure that will provide a foundation for
growing a lasting business enterprise.
Puget Sound Law can help you organize and establish your
closely held or family owned business, by assisting with
proper business formation as a Subchapter S
Corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships, and properly
license to do business within the State of Washington.
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This page was last updated on
10/29/2006.
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