Minnesota Estate Planning Attorneys
Done properly, estate planning is as much about protecting your family and your assets as it is about distributing assets after your death. At Thomsen Nybeck in Bloomington, Minnesota, our lawyers focus on planning for life events for clients of all ages. Those events may include marriage or divorce, the birth of children or grandchildren, starting a business, children going to college, caring for parents, investments, illness, nursing home admission and death.
We have found that our clients have diverse reasons for estate planning. Some want to minimize gift or estate taxes. Taxation is practice area of Thomsen Nybeck, and we offer planning services to maximize the amount of your estate that is distributed to your heirs.
Others need help managing the financial affairs of aging relatives or want to ensure that college tuition or other funds will be available for their children. Our lawyers draft legal documents, such as wills, powers of attorney and trusts to help our clients reach their goals.
Many Minnesotans have family businesses, lake property or vacation homes in warm-weather states they wish to pass on to children. Succession planning is an important part of the services our lawyers provide. Our clients also want relatives and health care providers to know their wishes when it comes to things like feeding tubes and artificial life support at the end of life. Minnesota offers a heath care directive that allows you to spell out your wishes and appoint a representative to make decisions for you if you are unable to speak for yourself.
Probate is a process many of our clients wish to avoid. Our lawyers can plan your estate so that your assets can pass directly to your heirs without the need for probate. We can also handle probate proceedings when it is necessary.
Because our clients have diverse goals, effective estate planning includes far more than drafting wills. Our lawyers draft antenuptial agreements (also known as prenuptial or "prenup" agreements), living trusts, life insurance trusts, supplemental needs trusts, charitable remainder trusts and other documents.
For more information about estate planning, contact the attorneys at Thomsen Nybeck. From our offices in Bloomington, we serve clients throughout the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and greater Minnesota.
For preliminary information on the following subjects, please view the following brochures:
Duties of an Attorney-In-Fact read it now
The Role of a Health Care Agent read it now
Personal Representative Duties read it now
Top Ten Times to Create or Update Your Estate Plan read it now
Trustee Fiduciary Duties read it now
