Practice Areas
Personal Legal Services
Estate Planning, Administration & Elder Law
Located in Pennsylvania (Wilkes-Barre area), the estate planning lawyers at Pugliese, Finnegan & Shaffer assist clients throughout northeast Pennsylvania with their estate planning and eldercare issues. We work with you to establish your goals for tax planning, controlling your assets, and leaving your legacy.
Skilled Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania Estate Planning Lawyer
Our estate planning lawyers can assist you in achieving your estate planning and tax planning goals by utilizing various wills, trusts, and other estate planning tools. We can help you with a number of estate planning and elder law matters, including the following:
- Asset protection - protecting your assets from claims and from taxes
- Establishing a will - including pour over wills and simple wills
- Creating trusts - including revocable and irrevocable trusts, as well as charitable trusts and family trusts
- Powers of attorney - including a limited power of attorney for set time and limited scope of authority, or a full power of attorney to allow someone to make all decisions on your behalf
- Living wills - to direct healthcare providers about life-sustaining machinery or resuscitation
- Healthcare directives - to give someone the power to make medical decisions on your behalf if you become incapacitated
- Guardianships - to care for your children if you are unable
- Estate and gift tax planning - a tool used to pass on part of your estate and minimize tax consequences
- Medicare and Medicaid planning - ensuring you are complying with law and able to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid in the future
- Nursing home admissions and planning - planning for entry into a nursing home or assisted living facility
- Business succession planning - planning on passing your business to your heirs while minimizing taxes
- Inheritance taxes - minimizing your heir's inheritance tax and allowing you to pass on as much of your estate as possible
If you have not done any estate planning, or if your assets have substantially changed since your last estate plan, we invite you to schedule a confidential consultation with an experienced estate planning attorney by calling us at (570) 283-1800, by e-mailing us, or by filling in our intake form on our Contact Us page. Today is never too early to engage in estate planning, but tomorrow may be too late.
