Estate Planning, Probate, & Trust Lawyers in Opelika / Auburn

The purpose of a trust in this manner is the management of assets over multiple family generations. Trusts can be tailored to avoid certain taxation or to protect the remnants of an estate. We prepare, as needed to accomplish the clients’ goals, a variety of trusts, including charitable trusts, so-called “living trusts,” and other forms of grantor trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, and qualified personal residence trusts. We have extensive experience with contested will, trust, and estate matters in state courts.

The firm also represents persons involved in other Probate Court matters such as adoptions and protective proceedings. Adoption is the act of making a child not born to you, your legal child. Any minor may be adopted but in most states the adoption of a child over 14 years of age requires the child’s consent to the adoption. Protective proceedings, such as guardianship’s and conservatorship’s take place solely within the jurisdiction of the Probate Court. An involuntary commitment is the legal process where a person with symptoms of severe mental illness is court ordered to treatment. Sometimes a person needs to be protected from harmful situations, like an involuntary commitment proceeding, which can take you out of the home you know and put into the care of the states mental health system. We have experience with involuntary commitments, adoptions, and other probate-related matters.