Estate Plans, Probate, and Trust

Effective estate plans help you manage your assets, avoid excess tax liability, and distribute assets to preserve your legacy.

What is Estate Planning, Probate, and Trust?

Estate Plans, Probate, and Trust involve legal arrangements for the management and distribution of assets after someone passes away.

 


Estate Plans, Probate, and Trust entail creating legal documents to ensure one's assets are managed and distributed according to their wishes upon death. Estate plans typically include wills, trusts, and powers of attorney to designate beneficiaries, manage taxes, and avoid probate. In Arkansas, probate proceedings involve validating wills and overseeing estate distribution, while trusts can offer privacy and efficiency in asset transfer, providing peace of mind for individuals and families.

Estate Plans, Probate, and Trust

 

Our initial approach to the wealth preservation process involves:

  • preparing an analysis of a client’s financial and family planning goals;
  • assisting clients in the preparation of basic estate planning documents such as wills, trusts, and financial and healthcare-related documents tailored to meet the client’s specific needs;
  • creatively planning to achieve the client’s goals in a manner that not only comports with the operation of client businesses or existing financial strategies, but also employs sophisticated strategies designed to avoid, defer and save federal and state gift, estate, generation skipping transfer and income taxes;
  • tailoring the foundation of the client’s estate plan to deal with family dynamics; and
  • working with the family leaders to implement the family’s mission and goals. 

 

Our attorneys implement techniques designed to transfer wealth to succeeding generations during the client’s lifetime to save or provide liquidity to pay estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes. Some of the strategies employed include:

  • forming business entities to better manage estate and trust assets;
  • implementing various strategies that utilize insurance to transfer value or provide liquidity to estates with estate tax burdens;
  • creating gifting programs and preparing gift tax returns;
  • working with clients to incorporate retirement plans and other savings strategies with the overall estate plan to achieve maximum flexibility and tax deferral; and
  • advising business owners regarding business succession matters.

 

The attorneys at RMP also offer a wide range of trust and estate administration services, including:

  • administering probate estates;
  • preparing estate tax returns;
  • representing estates and trusts before the Internal Revenue Service;
  • preparing trust tax returns;
  • assisting clients with appraisals of real estate and business interests (including working with the client and valuation advisors in performing due diligence for the appraisals);
  • funding trusts and advising clients on various post-mortem trust administration issues;
  • assisting in the selection of financial advisors and fiduciaries; and
  • advising beneficiaries of trusts as well as fiduciaries in the management of trusts to protect trust assets from claims of creditors and better attain tax avoidance or deferral.
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RMP Estate Plans, Probate, and Trust Lawyers

RMP provides clients with comprehensive estate plans, probate representation, and trust services and counseling. Our attorneys employ distinct estate planning techniques, many of which are directed at facilitating the transfer of wealth with reduced tax burdens from federal and state authorities. We provide clients with multi-generational planning designed to save taxes during life, at death, and for succeeding generations.

RMP Law Offices are proud to have lawyers working in Estate Planning, Probate, and Trust in Arkansas:

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JOHNSON
5519 Hackett Street, Suite 300
Springdale, AR 72762

BENTONVILLE
809 SW A Street, Suite 105
Bentonville, AR 72712

JONESBORO
710 Windover Road, Suite B
Jonesboro, AR 72401

LITTLE ROCK
11601 Pleasant Ridge, #301,
Little Rock, AR 72212

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