Lucinda Okafor-Brandt

Estate Planning

Estate-planning lawyers help you decide what happens to your assets, your children, and your medical decisions if you become incapacitated or die — through wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, beneficiary designations, and tax-aware structures. Even modest estates benefit from a basic will + healthcare directive + financial power of attorney; without those, decisions about your children, medical care, and assets default to state law (which is rarely what anyone would have wanted).