Estate Planning & Probate

Illinois Estate Planning Attorneys

Toussaint & Carlson, Ltd.

At Toussaint & Carlson, Ltd., we help families, individuals, and business owners throughout the Chicago area to identify their personal estate planning needs and goals and to develop unique strategies designed to meet them and protect their interests. As a firm, we provide a full range of essential estate planning services including:

• Preparation of will and living will documents
• Preparation of medical directive and durable power of attorney documents
• Establishing charitable trust, revocable trust, life insurance trust, special needs trust, supplemental needs trust, and other tax-saving trust tools
• Estate tax planning
• Probate

Despite recent tax law changes designed to raise the estate tax threshold, many of our clients have discovered their potential tax liability because of appreciation in their retirement accounts, property values, and other investment assets.

Our Illinois estate planning attorneys  can help you take advantage these changes to maximize your assets and reduce potential exposure to federal estate tax liability. We can advise you on the effective use of estate planning vehicles such as living trusts, irrevocable trusts, family limited partnerships, charitable programs, and other methods to protect assets from estate tax liability, and ensure that they reach intended beneficiaries.

If the unexpected happens and you find youself having to manage the assets of a family member you could find yourself in probate.  Having the someone else and courts making these decisions for you.  Having a will in place can help your loved ones from having to make these difficult finiancial decisions.  The lawyers at Toussaint & Carlson, Ltd. can help guide you through this process.

Our firm can also provide valuable guidance and trusted representation for probate administration needs and comprehensive services in this area that range from guardianships to will contest litigation.

If you have concerns about the validity of a will, probate court, or your individual estate planning needs, contact Toussaint & Carlson, Ltd. today.