Firm News
At Wokwicz Law Offices, LLC, we believe that regular communication with our clients on relevant and important topics is key to providing a more complete service for our clients. With this in mind, we are happy to share news of our firm and, perhaps even more importantly, legal and final news that are likely to effect our clients.
- May. 31 2018
What to Bring to Your First Estate Planning Meeting
As a service to our clients, we are sharing guidance on what to bring to your first estate planning meeting with our firm. Based on our decades of estate planning experience, we ask our clients to spend time considering some … Read more
- Mar. 23 2018
Avoiding Probate: Definitions and Key Reasons
Many of our clients name avoiding probate as a key goal when requesting our assistance in preparing a well crafted estate plan. At Wokwicz Law Offices, we have decades of experience navigating our clients around probate. A Brief Overview of … Read more
- Feb. 28 2018
Irrevocable Medicaid Asset Protection Trust: Protection from Nursing Homes
When we meet with estate planning clients for the first time, our estate planning attorneys will discuss a number of options focused upon the clients’ situation and goals. For clients interested in Medicaid nursing home asset protection, we explore creating … Read more
- Jan. 29 2018
Marital Trusts: Deciding When to Update
In recent years, there have been significant estate tax changes in Wisconsin that may impact marital trusts. Married couples with an an older marital revocable trust are advised to have their trust reviewed. In this article, our estate planning attorneys … Read more
- Dec. 8 2017
Divorce and Your Trust in Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, divorce raises significant challenges for both revocable and irrevocable trusts. Failure to address issues raised by divorce proceedings will often result in unfavorable or undesirable outcomes. In the third of our series about how divorce effects estate planning … Read more
- Nov. 13 2017
Divorce and Your Last Will and Testament in Wisconsin
In Wisconsin, divorce can significantly modify your estate planning documents with unintended results. Filing for divorce and the conclusion of a divorce alters estate planning documents and beneficiary designations, in different ways, without any action by the person getting divorced. … Read more