Trusts and Estates

Springfield, Illinois Wills and Trusts Attorney

Since the early decades of the 19th century, Brown, Hay & Stephens, LLP, has been helping people protect their family's success by drafting wills and administering estates and family trusts. Our trust and estate planning lawyers understand the importance of working closely with families to determine their immediate needs as well as their long-term objectives. We welcome the opportunity to work alongside your financial and tax professionals to help you determine the full value of your family's estate. By knowing how your retirement plans, your family business, and other objectives fit together, we help you establish a legal arrangement that ensures that your beneficiaries will retain the maximum asset value after probate taxes. Our objective is to do more than just draft a simple will. At Brown, Hay & Stephens, LLP, we develop a strategy that protects your family's success.

Whether your assets include complex property and business ownership, or simply a house on a quiet street in Springfield, we will use our experience to help you meet your estate planning goals. From complex property valuation and family business law, including business succession planning to establishing guardianship over a minor or disabled adult, our trust and estate planning lawyers are committed to our hallmark of competency and integrity. Contact us to schedule a consultation.

Wills and trusts, elder law, and other estate planning services

• Wills
• Charitable trusts, family trust administration
• Medicaid planning
• Estate administration
• Probate representation
• Contested will dispute
• Guardianship and conservatorship
• Powers of attorney, living wills
• Special needs planning

When you are ready to take a serious look at your estate planning and asset preservation needs, contact Brown, Hay & Stephens, LLP, to schedule a consultation with one of our attorneys in our trust and estate law group.