Practice Areas

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. -Sir Winston Churchill

Estate Planning

At McCraw Gantt, our goal is to ensure that our clients' estate planning documents reflect their desires for disposition of their assets at death and provide for management of their property in the event of disability. These documents normally include:

Will and/or a Living Trust
Financial Durable Power of Attorney
Medical Power of Attorney
Directive to Physicians or "Living Will"
Declaration of Guardian for Children
HIPAA Authorization
Self-Declaration of Guardian

We also help individuals prepare estate plans that will minimize estate and gift taxes while maximizing family wealth management and asset protection. Such planning may include bypass trusts, marital deduction trusts, generation skipping trusts, and irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), among other estate planning vehicles.

In addition, we provide counsel to clients on delicate family issues related to marriage, including the preservation of assets in the event of a divorce, through the effective use of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, separate and community property issues, and transfers of property to children of prior marriages.