Illinois Estate Planning Attorneys
A well-crafted estate plan can protect your assets, benefit your family and provide peace of mind.
Rammelkamp Bradney conducts an active estate planning practice, providing advice and services for people with estates ranging in size from modest to large. The firm provides a complete range of legal services in the estate planning area, including:
- Wills
- Trusts
- Advanced health care directives (living wills, health care powers of attorney)
- Estate tax minimization
- Gifting programs
- Business and farm succession
- Elder law
- Guardianships
- Probate administration
- Tax preparation
- And other estate planning and administration services
Over the years, Rammelkamp Bradney has provided estate planning advice and services to many people in Central Illinois, including multiple generations of families. The firm's clients include farmers, business owners, skilled tradesmen, government employees and other working people in our area, as well as retirees. They appreciate the firm's sound advice, discretion and deep concern for their well-being and that of their families.
In developing an estate plan for you, a lawyer at Rammelkamp Bradney will review your situation, explore your values, and discuss your goals for yourself and your family. Then your lawyer will draft the documents and create the legal vehicles needed to help you achieve your goals.
Business Succession
Rammelkamp Bradney works frequently with business owners and farmers in planning the transition of their operations to other family members or sale to non-family members. Business successions raise many tax issues as well as practical concerns involving business or farm operations, real estate and other matters.
The firm has extensive experience in tax minimization strategies in these and other situations. Rammelkamp Bradney will develop a plan for you designed to minimize taxes and facilitate a successful transfer of your business or farm to the next generation.
Probate and Trust Administration
Rammelkamp Bradney assists clients with the administration of wills and trusts, issues related to contested wills, guardianships, preparation of estate tax returns and planning for beneficiaries. A properly structured trust may allow you to avoid probate.
Your Estate Planning Needs Can Change
As your family and financial situations change, your estate planning documents should change too. A marriage, divorce, birth of a child, impending retirement or other significant event should cause you to revisit and possibly revise your estate documents.
Rammelkamp Bradney works closely with clients to keep their estate documents in tune with their current situation and future goals. Whether it involves a simple amendment to a will or major revision in an estate plan, an attorney at the firm can provide you with the advice and services you need.
For a consultation with Rammelkamp Bradney, P.C., call 866.494.0980 toll free or send the firm an e-mail.
Rammelkamp Bradney has offices in Jacksonville, Springfield and Winchester, Illinois.
