Estate Planning

Southeast Michigan Estate Planning Lawyers

We design comprehensive estate plans to meet your personal, financial and business goals. Our firm focuses on income, gift and estate tax issues to develop a comprehensive estate plan that will achieve your specific objectives. We will carefully analyze your particular situation and goals to create an estate plan that is tailored to your particular goals. We will conduct a thorough review that analyzes your finances, properties, insurance polices and businesses to help ensure that every important detail is considered when planning your estate. When you choose us, you can be assured that we will have your goals in mind.

Free consultations are available with our estate planning and asset protection attorneys. E-mail us or call us at (248) 335-5000.

With more than 25 years of experience behind us, the team at Hertz Schram understands how to design multigenerational estate plans. We are available to provide estate planning, as well as business succession planning, services to clients in Detroit and throughout Southeast Michigan.

We are not your traditional law firm. We do not believe that there is any value in offering generic legal advice when we know that every client is unique. Our team members are dedicated to getting to know your particular concerns. We believe that personalization is an important aspect of legal representation which is all too often overlooked.

Our lawyers use a wide range of estate planning tools depending on your needs. Included among the tools we may use to build your estate plan are:

• Revocable trusts
• Wills
• Irrevocable life insurance trusts
• Durable powers of attorney
• Patient advocate designations
• Grantor retained annuity trusts
• Qualified personal residence trusts
• Generation skipping trusts
• Charitable trusts
• Living wills
• Estate tax returns
• Family limited liability companies
• Business succession plans
• Buy-sell plans
• Asset protection
• Gifting
• Advanced directives
• Related Probate matters

By carefully examining your assets, income and other important details, our estate planning attorneys will determine the combination of sophisticated tools that are right for your situation. We will create plans that will make sure that your property moves on to the next generation in the manner that you wish.

We are also capable of creating plans for the special needs of disabled family members and dealing with post-mortem administration and estate tax planning. Our firm also has experience representing people during contested probate concerns.