Legacy Law Center

Estate Planning, Elder Law & Probate Attorneys in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Estate planning often begins with a simple goal: protecting the people you love. But as families grow older, that goal can become more complicated. Parents may need long-term care. Adult children may suddenly find themselves helping with healthcare decisions or managing finances. A family business may need a succession plan, or a loved one with disabilities may require long-term financial support that won't affect important public benefits.

Legacy Law Center helps Michigan families prepare for those moments through estate planning, elder law, Medicaid planning, probate, trust administration, and special needs planning. Whether you're planning well in advance or responding to an unexpected crisis, the firm's attorneys help families understand their options and make informed decisions for the future.

Planning Before a Crisis Happens

Many families don't think about estate planning until something changes. A parent experiences a serious illness, retirement is approaching, or children have families of their own. By then, some important planning opportunities may already have been missed.

Legacy Law Center encourages families to begin planning before those situations arise. Depending on your needs, an estate plan may include wills, trusts, financial powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and other legal documents that allow trusted individuals to make decisions if you are no longer able to do so yourself. Reviewing those plans as life changes can help ensure they continue to reflect your wishes and your family's circumstances.

Helping Families Navigate Long-Term Care

One of the biggest concerns many families face is how to provide quality care for an aging loved one without exhausting a lifetime of savings.

Questions about home care, assisted living, nursing homes, Medicare, and Medicaid often arise quickly, leaving families to make important financial and legal decisions under considerable stress. Legacy Law Center helps clients understand these issues before a crisis develops whenever possible, while also assisting families who must respond after long-term care has already become necessary.

The firm's website places particular emphasis on helping adult children who are balancing their own families and careers while also caring for aging parents—a situation many people find themselves facing with little preparation.

When Time Is Running Short

Not every family has the opportunity to plan years in advance.

Sometimes a parent is already entering a nursing home or assisted living community, and the family is suddenly trying to understand how care will be paid for and what options remain available.

Legacy Law Center assists families with Medicaid crisis planning, helping them evaluate available planning strategies and understand the legal and financial decisions that often accompany an urgent long-term care situation. While every family's circumstances are different, obtaining legal guidance early in the process can help clarify available options.

Planning for Loved Ones with Disabilities

Parents and caregivers often worry about how a child or adult with disabilities will be cared for in the future.

Providing financial support can be more complicated than simply leaving an inheritance if that support could affect eligibility for important public benefit programs. Legacy Law Center helps families develop special needs plans that consider both long-term financial security and continued access to available benefits.

The firm's website also provides resources to help families better understand future planning and the decisions that often accompany long-term caregiving.

Helping Veterans and Surviving Spouses Explore Available Benefits

Some veterans and surviving spouses may qualify for benefits that can help offset the cost of long-term care or in-home assistance, yet many families are unaware these programs exist.

Legacy Law Center helps eligible veterans and surviving spouses explore Aid and Attendance benefits and assists with the application process. For families already struggling with the cost of care, understanding whether these benefits may be available can become an important part of an overall long-term care plan.

Helping Families After the Loss of a Loved One

The responsibilities of serving as a personal representative or trustee often arrive during an already difficult time.

Settling an estate may involve probate, trust administration, gathering assets, paying debts, and carrying out the instructions left in a will or trust. Legacy Law Center helps families understand these responsibilities while guiding them through the legal process and answering questions that many personal representatives encounter for the first time.

Planning for Family Businesses

For many business owners, estate planning involves more than passing assets to the next generation.

Without a succession plan, retirement, disability, or the death of an owner can create uncertainty for both the business and the family members who depend on it. Legacy Law Center helps business owners incorporate succession planning into their overall estate plans so that ownership transitions are addressed before unexpected events occur.

Serving Ann Arbor and Michigan Families

From its Ann Arbor office, Legacy Law Center serves families throughout Washtenaw County and across Michigan. Whether you're creating an estate plan, helping an aging parent, planning for a loved one with disabilities, exploring long-term care options, or administering an estate after a death, the firm's attorneys focus on helping families make informed decisions during some of life's most important transitions.

Practice Areas

• Estate Planning

• Wills

• Trusts

• Elder Law

• Long-Term Care Planning

• Medicaid Planning

• Medicaid Crisis Planning

• Probate Administration

• Estate Administration

• Trust Administration

• Special Needs Planning

• Veterans Benefits Planning

• Charitable Planning

• Estate Tax Planning

• Business Succession Planning

• Asset Protection Planning

• Financial Powers of Attorney

• Healthcare Directives