Troy Michigan Estate Planning Attorney

Accomplished probate lawyer Bruce Hartrick does estate planning for individuals and business owners. He handles uncontested and contested probate proceedings, many of which are referred to him by other lawyers, involving the following:

• Conservatorship
• Guardianship
• Estates
• Trusts

We have successfully defended will challenge proceedings in Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties in Michigan that have included estates with assets valued from $15,000 to more than $12,000,000. Contact Hartrick and Chapman, PLLC, to see how we may help you.

Married couples with young children may wish to create a will to designate a caretaker for their children and assets upon death, and to designate the age at which the children should receive their assets. There are also tax-planning considerations if assets exceed a certain amount. Whether your matter concerns probate, wills, or trusts, attorney Bruce Hartrick can help.

At Hartrick and Chapman, PLLC, we offer estate planning services for individuals and families. These services range from creating a basic will and trust agreement to complex business structuring. We can create a contingent trust in your will if you wish, or advise you on matters of disinheritance. Our estate planning objectives include ensuring present and future family control of property and family business interests through long-terms trusts, business structuring so as to reduce transfer taxes over several generations, and adequate liquidity of an estate to support the late principal owner's surviving spouse and family and defray estate taxes.

Our estate planning takes into account applicable provisions of local and federal tax law, including the federal gift tax and estate tax. We also address the complex non-tax considerations of planning, including planning for incapacity. This involves consideration of non-living trusts and revocable living trusts, living wills, and a durable power of attorney, either general or with regard to health care. Contact Hartrick and Chapman, PLLC, for the skillful, straightforward legal representation that comes from 29 years of experience.

Estate planning attorney Bruce Hartrick and Judith Chapman of Hartrick and Chapman, PLLC,  in Troy, Michigan, serve clients in Troy, Bloomfield Hills, Rochester Hills, Rochester, Southfield, Birmingham, Royal Oak, Madison Heights, Sterling Heights, Auburn Hills, Warren, Waterford, Lake Orion, Oxford, Clarkston, Berkley, Clawson, and in Oakland County, Macomb County, and Wayne County.

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Hartrick and Chapman, PLLC
802 E. Big Beaver Road
Troy, MI 48083
248-524-0960 Phone
248-524-0973 Fax