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Estate planning to protect your family, your wishes, and your peace of mind

Thomas Legal, PLLC helps Oakland and Macomb County families create estate plans that reflect their goals, values, and relationships. A good estate plan can help protect your family, put your wishes in writing, and make things easier during illness and after death.

  • Printable PDF: If you’re still deciding who to name as your substitute decision makers, download the PDF first and use it to brainstorm and take notes. When you’re ready and your choices are clear, you can then complete and submit the online form.
  • Online Web Form: Once you already know who you want to act as your substitute decision makers, go straight to the web form. It usually takes about 15–30 minutes to complete.

After I receive your completed form, I’ll review it, call you to schedule a time to discuss your goals, and, if we decide to move forward, I will send you a written engagement agreement.

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Why Estate Planning Matters

 If you do not have an estate plan, Michigan law as applied by the probate court determines who manages your affairs, who makes medical decisions, and how your property passes. 

 

  • Choose who handles financial matters if you cannot.
  • Choose who makes medical decisions for you.
  • Direct how your property should pass.
  • Make things easier for your family during illness and after death.
  • Put clear instructions in place under Michigan law.

Estate Plan Options

Trust-Based Estate Plan

Trust-Based Estate Plan

Trust-Based Estate Plan

   A trust-based plan can provide more control and privacy while helping your family avoid probate. It allows you to manage debts and expenses, distribute gifts on your terms, protect beneficiaries with staggered distributions, and name guardians for minor children through a pour‑over will. 

Trust-Based Estate Plan

Will-Based Estate Plan

Trust-Based Estate Plan

Trust-Based Estate Plan

  A will‑based plan ensures your wishes are carried out through the probate process. It lets you manage debts and expenses, decide how assets are distributed, name guardians for your children, and use probate efficiently to implement your goals.
 

Will-Based Estate Plan

Estate Planning Tools

 Learn how these Michigan estate‑planning tools work together: revocable trusts, simple wills, ladybird deeds, financial powers of attorney, patient advocate designations, funeral representative designations, certificates of trust, and powers of attorney delegating parental consent. 

Estate Planning Tools

Documents that fit your goals and comply with Michigan law

Trusts

Patient Advocate Designation

Trusts

Michigan law for the creation, modification, and termination of trusts, including requirements and trustee powers.

MCL 700.7101...700.7913

Wills

Patient Advocate Designation

Trusts

Law concerning the legal standards for validity, execution, and revocation of wills, including witness requirements.

MCL 700.2501...700.2519

Durable Power of Attorney

Patient Advocate Designation

Patient Advocate Designation

 Law concerning durability, form acceptance, agent powers, and execution of Michigan's new Uniform Power of Attorney Act.

MCL 556.201...556.505

Patient Advocate Designation

Patient Advocate Designation

Patient Advocate Designation

Law governing the designation of a patient advocate to make medical decisions if the principal is incapacitated.

MCL 700.5506...700.5515
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