Estate Planning
Know What to Expect from Our ProcessFree Seminar
Know your Estate Planning options by attending or viewing our Free Educational Seminar about Wills, Trusts & the Nursing Home
Family Vision Meeting
Once you’ve attended or viewed the Seminar, you have a complimentary meeting with Stan to discuss your family’s planning needs
Signing Ceremony
Execute your comprehensive Estate Plan by signing all your documents and gain the peace of mind that comes with protecting your loved ones
Step #1: Know Your Options
Attend or View our Free Estate Planning Seminar
At Pierchoski Estate Law, education is our focus. After all, how can you decide what kind of estate plan would work best for your family if you don’t know what all your options are? That is why Stan has created his free educational seminar – a presentation of information that lays out the different types of estate plans where Wills, Trusts, types of trusts, and how to avoid the rising costs of long-term care are all main topics of the seminar.
Once you’ve attended or viewed our Free Educational Seminar, we can schedule a complimentary two-hour meeting – the Family Vision Meeting – where you sit down with Stan and discuss exactly where you want to end up with your estate planning.
Attending or viewing the Seminar ahead of this private meeting is helpful for many reasons. Coming into the meeting having heard the basics of estate planning options, knowing our price ranges for various plans, and already thinking about what specifically you want out of your estate plan, allows you and Stan the time to finalize a plan for your family’s unique circumstances with only one meeting.
Click the button below to see when our nex Free Seminar will be and start the process today!
Step #2: Meet with Stan Pierchoski
Attend Your Complimentary Family Vision Meeting
Once you’ve attended or viewed Stan’s Seminar, we can schedule your Family Vision Meeting. This meeting has multiple purposes:
- To guide you to become more financially organized and clear than you ever have been before so you can be confident about what you have and what you need.
- To allow you to fully understand what estate planning tools will best accomodate your family’s unique circumstances
- To give you clarity on how to make things as easy as possible for your loved ones after you are gone.
By looking at what would happen under your current plan (or the State’s plan for you if you do not have a plan), you can identify what you would want to happen differently and then make the decisions that are necessary to give you the peace of mind of knowing your family would be taken care of in the way you want if something happened to you.
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
— Pablo Picasso.
We have total piece of mind knowing who will be the trustee, who will be our medical representative and how it will be disbursed. We have spoken with all of our 7 children, explaining what we did and why we did it. They are all in agreement. This eases our mind, as well..
Step #3: Execute Your Estate Plan
Attend Your Signing Ceremony
Once you’ve attended or viewed Stan’s Seminar, had your Family Vision Meeting with Stan, and decided on the plan that will suite your needs the best, it’s time to sign your estate plan into existence! The Signing Ceremony consists of a few elements:
- Stan will walk you through each document as a review before you sign each element of your Estate Plan.
- Our team will go over how to properly fund your trust, if you’re signing a Trust Plan, so that you leave with detailed instructions to ensure your plan does exactly what you want it to do.
- You leave our office with two copies of your comprehensive Estate Plan and the relief that comes with checking this item off your life list.
We do our best to keep the Estate Planning process to these easy three steps. Everyone’s lives are busy and estate planning is always the first thing to slip to the back burner and stay there. We want to eliminate as many obsticles as we can so as to help you achieve that piece of mind that comes with knowing your family will be taken care of in the way you choose.
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