Introduction to Married Trusts
Jun 23, 2022
NOELLE MINTO, ESQ.Don’t think that just because you’re married you don’t need trust. The last thing you want to do after your loved one passes is end up in court. Imagine rather than spending time grieving the loss of your loved one, you have to go argue with a judge in probate court. No one wants that.
If I had to analogize probate court to something, it would have to be that leak in your house. You hire a plumber to fix it, turn your back, they’re gone, and you release a sigh of relief. You look back realizing the only thing the plumber did was put some tape over it. This might fix the issue for him, but you’re right back where you started.
A trust is designed to be insurance and assurance that that doesn’t happen. Some of the basic types of trusts that we use, particularly for married couples, they are known as ABC trusts. They’re aptly named as when you think ABC the first thing that comes to mind is simplicity. Only later do you realize that there are over 7,000 languages each with different variations and different letters with similar representations.
Our goal here at NM Law is to ensure that we have the right trust for you. Don’t think that merely because you have a trust that it needs to be overly complicated. On the contrary, trusts are meant to simplify everything to make sure that you don’t have any issues once your loved one passes. Or if you are incapacitated, to make sure all of your assets can be handled properly.
We seek to make sure that you have comfort and understanding of some of these complex structures so that when you need it your money will be there. It will be there for your kids. It’s not going to be lining the pockets of the government. Everything will be for your family. If you have any more questions feel free to reach out to us. Thank you.
Testimonials
John Schroeder was brought on to work on my case with Samantha and they updated/collaborated with Noelle. Noelle, Samantha and John are all patient, direct and very personable. Their knowledge and professionalism are exceptional. NM Law was successful in achieving a Settlement Agreement under difficult circumstances amongst people with little trust in one another. Thankfully we did not have to bear the cost of going to trial, however, I have complete confidence that NM Law would have prevailed if we had.
I highly recommend NM Law. I look forward to working with them again, but this time to plan my estate.
I want to thank you and your staff for the courtesy extended to us during our family's pending emergency deadline.
Mr. O'Grady spoke to my brother and gave us his best recommendation regarding my father's estate.
It is really hard to speak, and even harder to "plan" generational wealth with a parent in terms of assets, intentions, and mortality, but it is a necessary conversation to have, if only to lessen the unfairness of life that eventually catches up to all of us.
Our family tried to bring justice to my father's death within this probate process and found no justice, this system must be changed, so that a fairness is inherit within this system and not just a scam—lots of hard lessons to be learned from a broken probate process.
In either case, thank you again for giving our family the attention and direction we sought. The adage is true, not all lawyers are the same. Looking forward to working with your office in the near future, as we don't want to repeat this experience with our Mom.
Gracias,
Abraham
We highly recommend NM Law for your estate planning needs.
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