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Whether you are 18 years old or 87 years old, NOW is the time to set your landing gear: before crisis or death strike. We design plans for your personal circumstances that ensure if crisis strikes, and when death arrives, you and your family will have a safe landing. Don’t make any assumptions: the fact is that if you haven’t created your crisis and estate plan, or it’s incomplete or improper, the State’s rules can overrule your wishes.
Edwards Estate & Elder Law can help you avoid a crash landing and ensure your wishes during life and after death are enforceable. First, we’ll prepare your crisis documents: an Advance Healthcare Directive and General Durable Power of Attorney. If a medical or mental health crisis causes you to be incapacitated, even for a temporary time, YOU get to choose who will act on your behalf – not the State. YOU can choose who will make decisions for your medical needs, your legal and financial matters, and even your care, and care and support for your minor children. Second, we’ll prepare your estate planning documents, whether it’s a trust you set up to organize, manage or gift your assets now or upon your death, or, a Last Will & Testament and beneficiary designations that dictate to who, and how, your assets will be managed and delivered when you die.
Let’s face it: We’re all going to die. We all know our birth date. It’s impossible to know our death date. It’s impossible to predict if a crisis will affect us. Most people don’t have a plan. Many people have a poor plan. Both will result in a crash landing causing heartache, headache, lost time, and lost money. Let’s talk frankly about it and get your complete and customized planning in place for you now.
Stacey M. Edwards
Stacey M. Edwards, Esq., is the founder and managing member of Edwards Estate & Elder Law. For more than 20 years, she has devoted her practice solely to Estate and Elder Law. Stacey has developed a thought process over her decades of experience to incorporate planning tools and guidance ensuring every client is armed with the right tools in their estate plan toolbox to reach for if, and when, the unthinkable happens so no one has to resort to a court for permission to act on their behalf. When it comes to crisis management and disputes, time and time again she’s developed solutions to some of the most heartbreaking experiences a client has ever faced. Her compassion is balanced with straight delivery of how the law affects you, and dives deep to determine how your personal problem can be resolved.
Her clients praise her thoroughness, ability to think outside the box, and genuine care. They note she often goes above and beyond to develop a plan or support a client through cleaning up a crash site caused by no planning or poor planning that so often enter through the firm’s threshold.
Stacey’s on a mission to ensure every adult in the U.S. has a thorough and complete crisis and estate plan. She’s an electric public speaker who arms her audience with the correct information, empowering them to take action that will give them peace of mind by investing in great planning that will avoid the dire consequences of no planning or poor planning: heartache, headache, lost time, and lost money.
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