Estate Planning
Estate Planning for Complex Financial Estates
Ikard & Golden has the experience and professional capacity to help you resolve your most complex legal matters relating to estate planning and probate issues.
The Professional Resources to Meet Your Complex Planning Needs
Since 1992, our firm has been recognized as one of central Texas' preeminent estate planning firms. Our attorneys have earned board certification in estate planning by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and are active members of many professional organizations dedicated to estate planning and probate law. We have written numerous articles and taught extensively in the area of estate planning and probate.
Contact us to discuss your estate planning objectives. We focus entirely on estate planning and probate law for individuals and families with significant assets and property, including services such as:
- Wills
- Charitable giving
- Asset protection and risk management
- Trust administration and accounting
- Estate administration
- Guardianship and conservatorship law
Our Seasoned Estate Planning Lawyers Are the Difference
We are not a typical law firm. We work with clients who have established assets in excess of $1.5 million and are looking for unique solutions to their specific needs. We focus on providing the extraordinary care and protection your success deserves.
Our firm offers a full range of individualized estate planning services, including:
- Arranging financial and legal affairs to accomplish your specific life goals
- Arrange for a smooth transition of accounts and assets upon death
- Analysis and planning to reduce the impact of transfer taxes upon death
- Insurance and retirement benefit planning
- Business succession planning and ownership issues
In addition, we help our clients meet their specific goals for distributing assets during their lifetime, including:
- Charitable giving
- Education and special needs trusts
- Generation-skipping trusts
Personalized Service — Estate Planning Done the Right Way
Our firm is committed to remaining small. Experience has taught us that senior lawyers in large firms invariably “farm out” work to associates to maintain their firm's economic structure. This results in less personal service from the senior attorneys and a greater distance from the client. We have consciously declined to build an organizational structure that distances senior attorneys from direct client interactions. We feel that maintaining a streamlined practice comprised solely of seasoned attorneys allows us to provide more personal service and more value to our clients because of that service.
From our offices in Austin, we work with individual and families in communities throughout central Texas. Contact our offices to discuss your estate planning needs and goals.
