Wills & Trusts

While planning for the inevitable can be difficult and sometimes painful, Sell & Melton, L.L.P. attorneys can work with clients to determine the best methods, including wills, trusts, charitable gifts, and inter vivos gifts, to preserve their estates while maintaining flexibility and minimizing the burdens on the client’s family.

Additionally, our attorneys are able to assist clients with decisions related to living wills, durable health care powers of attorney, general powers of attorney, and guardianships for both minors and incapacitated adults.

Estate Planning With Businesses and Assets

Though in some cases protecting the entirety of an estate from the federal and state estate tax burden is a difficult task, Sell & Melton, L.L.P. attorneys can work with clients to prepare an overview of their estate and to assist clients in minimizing the loss and disruption of their business after death. Our attorneys will help a client identify and strategically address potential issues relating to the distribution and management of the client’s business and asset interests which may arise upon the client’s death or incapacitation.

Administration of Estates & Will Contests

Sell & Melton, L.L.P. attorneys are experienced in assisting clients through the probate of wills and the administration of estates and in aggressively advocating the interests of clients in wills, will contests, trusts, or intestate estates. Our attorneys offer a complete array of probate services to assist families during the difficult days following the death or incapacitation of a loved one.

Charitable Representation

Our attorneys can help clients consider and structure various types of lifetime and testamentary charitable gifts, trusts, or bequests in order to achieve favorable tax treatment and to accomplish our clients’ philanthropic desires.