Colorado Estate Lawyers Planning

Why Choose Colorado Estate Matters, Ltd. for Estate Planning Services?

When you trust us to oversee your important legal matters, you can rest assured that you will always receive:

• Competent, caring and professional representation
• Personalized attention
• Options that are specifically tailored to your needs, circumstances, and wishes
• The highest quality of legal services

Our Denver estate planning attorneys are incredibly proficient at using creative family-focused approaches to develop a unique estate plan that accomplishes all your goals, now and in the future. One of our primary goals is to help you devise effective, prudent solutions that will properly protect you, your family, and your assets, well into the future.

Benefits of Estate Planning:

The most critical issues for your estate planning are: protecting the people that you love from unneccesary stress, expenses and taxation; or being suddenly left without the resources to face life ahead.

Experience a Client-Centric Approach with Our Colorado Estate Planning Attorneys

We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach.  We always take a client-centered approach to your care. We strive to address your entire family dynamic to ensure you leave a lasting and positive legacy for your loved ones. We believe in providing all the information you need to make the best decision for yourself and your family because the best decisions lead to the best outcomes.

At Colorado Estate Matters, we offer a free initial consultation in all fields, and our clients receive free consultations whenever they need them. To make the process as convenient as possible for you, we have video conferencing, and we are happy to make visits to homes, nursing homes, hospitals, or hospices, at your request.

Our team

Justin W. Blow

Managing Partner and Attorney

Denise Husa

Senior Paralegal

Lexus Bohan

Paralegal

Estate Planning Services in Colorado

Sadly, nobody is promised tomorrow.  It’s rarely too early to start developing an estate plan that can spell out your wishes, minimize potential stresses for your family and protect any assets that may be left to them in the future.  (If you’re one of those rare cases, we’ll gladly tell you.)

While estate plans can incorporate various directives and legal documents, our estate planning lawyers in Colorado are experienced in assisting our clients with all of their unique estate planning needs, including:

• Will-based planning: Every adult should have a current Will to protect their loved ones should the unexpected occur. We can assist you with creating a Will, updating your existing will, and determining if a Will is right for you.
• Trust-based planning: Living Trusts, Special Needs Trusts, and many other types of specialized trusts can be utilized to protect against over-taxation, protect beneficiaries from themselves and others, and give asset protection.
• Guardianships and conservatorships: A guardianship or conservatorship can assure that your loved one is cared for when they aren’t able to care for themselves.  We can help you establish Guardianship and Conservatorship plans for your minor children and/or over your aging loved ones when the needs arises.
• Estate taxes: Estate tax laws change over time, becoming higher or lower. Your estate plan should be geared to help you take advantage of the latest methods by which your estate can be protected from over-taxation.
• Powers of attorney: A power of attorney gives another party the right to act in your stead. Granting this authority is not to be taken lightly.  Too often we see documents printed off the internet that either don’t grant the authority they were intended to or worse, grant more authority than intended.
• Asset protection: You worked very hard to accumulate everything you have. Why risk your beneficiaries losing it to creditors, divorce, or bankruptcy?  Advanced asset protection strategies allow you to protect your assets for your beneficiaries.

Why You Want Our Colorado Estate Planning Services

It can be difficult to think about life’s end, and what your family would experience if you should suddenly die or become incapacitated, but it is an important part of ensuring your loved ones are cared for when you are no longer there. Our Colorado Estate Planning Attorneys will go over all of your goals, issues, and family dynamics while guiding you through the estate planning process.  Often we ask questions that spur insights our clients hadn’t considered.  By asking the right questions, and eliciting those responses, we’re able to assist our clients in making their best possible estate plan.

Protecting Your Assets – and The People You Love

The most important issue in estate planning is protecting the people you love from the myriad issues that occur when you’re gone. We are with you for the long term, as you establish your lives and acquire more assets, have more children, or life brings changes that should be reflected in a will, trust, directives, or legal documents; and when you’re gone, we’ll be here for your family as well.

Probate and Estate Administration

After a loved one passes, probate may be a necessary step in the administration of the estate. Working with the team at Colorado Estate Matters, Ltd. can be critical to minimizing the costs, complications, and duration of probate.  We’re here to make sure you properly administer the estate so you don’t have to worry about liability. To learn more about our various probate and estate administration services, check out our probate services page.

Trust and Will Contests

Unfortunately, the administration of Wills and Trusts is not always a smooth and easy process. In some cases, disputes arise that can quickly become complicated and expensive. When a dispute regarding Wills, Trusts or an Estates arises, you can trust the Denver Trust and Will attorneys at Colorado Estate Matters, Ltd. to help you resolve these issues as favorably and efficiently as possible.

Some of the specific types of disputes that we have a record of successfully resolving include (but are not limited to) those involving:

• Breach of fiduciary duty
• Claims against fiduciaries
• Trust disputes
• Common-Law Marriage Disputes