- Divorce
- Real Estate LitigationReal estate matters are handled as they relate to estate matters. These typically include selling the home and drafting closing documents or assisting the heirs with a Partition of inherited land. A Partition is a division of property. Generally, a surveyor is employed to survey the entire parcel of land, divide it into individual tracts and render a plat designating the parcels in some way: A,B,C or Tract I, Tract II, and Tract III. After the surveyor has completed his work complete with new legal descriptions, for each individual tract, then a Partition agreement is prepared where all heirs convey all of their interest in a specified parcel to a single heir, such that the single heir now owns 100% interest in the parcel. This is replicated for each additional heir. At the end of this process co-ownership is extinguished and each heir owns a definite parcel of land.
- Personal InjuryGwenda worked for Steven W. Harris & Associates, a plaintiff firm handling personal injury and some workers’ compensation claims. Gwenda handled estate related matters as necessary.
- Auto Accidents
- Medicaid PlanningEstate recovery means that the State of Louisiana will make a claim against the estate of a person for whom it paid nursing home costs after the person is deceased. Proactive Medicaid planning protects against this.
- Estate PlanningEven if you're single and have never been married, there are realistic estate planning concerns that you
- WillsHowever, in most, if not all states, law makers and courts will step in to "protect us from ourselves."....because "we are not caring for ourselves" or "are not protecting ourselves", or "acting against our best interests." What if since the earliest time we can remember, supposedly while in our right minds, we declared that this was our ambition, our longing, our right and our freedom; the freedom to be left alone, in private, and in dignity; further not to have someone else with a different agenda substitute their will for ours? What if we placed in our Last Will & Testaments a provision to disinherit those who transgressed this sacred right as we state our intent to be left alone?
- TrustsLiving Trust - for asset protection, medicaid eligibility, providing for beneficiaries, and/or avoiding probate/succession after death
- Power of AttorneyPower of Attorney from college bound children to yourselves so that in the event of difficulty the university will deal with you, you may make medical decisions if an emergency arises, and so that you may transact your child’s business as necessary
- Probate