Promise Law is proud to provide a variety of helpful estate planning resources. Believe it or not, almost everybody has an estate. To mention a few examples, your estate includes your vehicle, house, bank accounts, life insurance, and investments—no matter how big or small. However, estate planning extends beyond your assets and property: it is the efforts you take throughout your life to arrange for disability, disease, and death. Ultimately, estate planning is about taking care of your loved ones by taking care of yourself.

To support you in this endeavor, we provide you with support through education and informative resources. Through every step of your journey, information is made accessible to our clients through plain language guidance and supportive counsel designed to give you the peace of mind and confidence you deserve. We are fully dedicated to your success— each link below is an path to a wealth of information. We hope you find this page helpful!

A Checklist to Help You Get Started

If you’re just beginning your estate planning journey, we have the perfect estate planning resources for you. This checklist will guide you through the pre-planning phase and the planning phase. Not only will it give you insight into what your estate plan may consist of, but once you complete the steps, you will give your attorney a head-start when you’re ready to complete your plan. It’s a win-win! Here’s The Ultimate Estate Planning Checklist

Practice Areas

Estate planning necessitates a thorough understanding of Virginia estate laws as well as the tools available to manage assets throughout life and distribute property after death. Our extensive knowledge in Probate and Administration as well as Medicaid and Long-Term Care complements our estate planning practice.

Estate Planning

You’ve developed your passions over a lifetime whether it’s creating a family or community, honing your professional craft, dedicating yourself to the life of the mind, cultivating a life of faith, or improving the world. Now it’s time to protect and continue that legacy with an estate plan. Learn More

Probate and Administration

Someone important has died, and now you have to figure out the legal and financial fallout of this loss. Maybe it’s probate of your parent’s estate or the management of a loved one’s trust.

Whatever brings you into this role the tasks are overwhelming, and the steps are not often clear. Learn More

Medicaid and Long-Term Care

What would you do if a loved one suddenly becomes unable to meet their day-to-day needs? Feeding, dressing, bathing. The basics require assistance. How to meet this need? The family can’t always do so, and paying for care in a nursing facility can be expensive. Learn More

Workshops

Promise Law places a strong emphasis on educating our clients, their families, and the community about estate planning and elder law issues. As part of our commitment, we offer estate planning resources including free workshops in three important topics: Estate Planning, Probate and Administration, and Medicaid and Long-Term Care Planning. You’ll learn a wide range of information from commonly asked questions to potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. Click on each topic below to learn more!

• Estate Planning
• Probate and Administration
• Medicaid and Long-Term Care

Legal Blogs by Topic

Check out the legal blogs in our estate planning resources. We regularly update it with content aimed at giving you useful and relevant information, actionable insights, and tips to help you plan your legacy.

Asset Protection: All-encompassing tips, insights, and strategies to help you understand how to best preserve your assets and wealth.

Estate Planning: Blogs delving into estate planning and how you can ensure your loved ones are fully cared for.

Special Needs & Medicaid: Topics created to help families understand how to preserve a legacy while navigating the Virginia Medicaid LTC system.

Promise Law on YouTube

When you want to sit back and learn about estate planning or related topics in short, digestible snippets, check out our YouTube channel as part of our estate planning resources. You’ll find helpful videos on all three practice areas. Whether you want to learn something new or send it to a family member or friend, these videos are designed to give you helpful tips in a pinch! Click here to browse

Contact Us

If you want to know more about our estate planning resources or dig deeper into how we can help you create the perfect estate plan, contact us. We’d be happy to answer your questions and help you protect what matters most to you. We offer complimentary consultations for all areas of practice. Click here to contact us online.