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As families break apart and grow across multiple marriages, their financial situation and property become ever more complex and perilous. In Calvert County, Maryland, estate planning attorneys at the Greenberg Legal Group LLC can help you plan your estate accordingly.
Few feelings are more frustrating for family members than watching property they expect to come to them go to an ex, children from a different marriage, or an estranged relative. This is bad enough when it happens according to the wishes of the deceased, but many times worse when everyone knows they would not have wanted it and no one can stop it.
Despite this, year after year, such scenes play out in Calvert County Orphans’ Court, where families must go to resolve their loved ones' wills and estates. In fact, such situations are increasingly likely as families become more complex, with multiple marriages, divorces, and children from different parents involved.
Fortunately, for even the most complex of families in Maryland, including in Calvert County, the risk of such outcomes can be dramatically reduced. Doing so requires the work of skilled estate planning and administration attorneys like those of the Greenberg Legal Group LLC, whose experience extends deep into the domains of family law as well as estate planning.
Estate planning is the process of looking ahead, anticipating the end of your life, and ensuring the legal safeguards and documents are there to protect those you leave behind. For example,
Without such documents carefully prepared and signed well ahead of time, anyone will need them, and the consequences can be dire. You give up control over these important aspects of your legacy, and your family could find themselves in quite complex situations, or even open conflict, during the estate administration process.
While there is a stereotype that only the wealthiest Maryland families need estate planning, the truth is that every family needs to endure some kind of estate administration after a loved one passes. While some may be able to escape Orphan’s Court probate administration with advanced estate plans involving trusts, most of us have to go through it at some point.
Calvert County’s Orphans’ Court is where a judge reviews and supervises the execution of the deceased’s will or the relevant Maryland succession laws. During this process, a family member or designated legal actor is chosen as the estate’s personal representative. They then carry the burden of estate administration, including gathering assets, selling some, distributing others, and paying off creditors. If you have been chosen for that task, you might understandably already feel overwhelmed, lost, or confused,
Fortunately, you do not have to do so alone. Estate administration attorneys can help guide you through the process, even in some of the more complicated and nuanced situations.
If you have divorced, as more than half of married Marylanders usually will, and especially if you have remarried, then you also need to keep your estate plan up to date and modify it accordingly. It is all too easy to forget to adjust even a single document and end up cursing decades worth of damage.
A new spouse could end up getting what you would have preferred goes to the children of an ex, or your newly adopted children from a third marriage could wind up being left out of a trust you have been investing in for all your children’s education.
Such mistakes occur with tragic frequency, often because families in Calvert County and areas like it do not realize the importance of clear and binding language or the complexities of estate planning across extended or blended families. They can be avoided, however, with the help of estate planning lawyers who are familiar with both the emotional and legal stakes and nuances of family law.
When it comes to handling Maryland divorces, Robert Greenberg and his team at the Greenberg Legal Group LLC have seen it all. From complex and stressful conflicts to mild and mutual separations, they know how to handle the legal steps and their aftermath. Even up to and beyond the grave.
This is because the team of attorneys at the Greenberg Legal Group LLC in Maryland is also experienced with estate planning for some of those same families. This means that when it comes to setting up wills and trusts and keeping your estate plan up to date even as your family situation changes, these are the attorneys you need. Whether that means making sure an ex won’t inherit or that each or just some of your children from across many marriages will, this team has your back.
The firm even has a former Orphans’ Court Chief Judge of counsel, Sherae McNeal, who has had to preside and decide on some thorny estate administration questions and dilemmas. Her advice and the work of the team of estate planning attorneys could be essential in avoiding such a crisis for your family, no matter how complex.
Greenberg Legal Group LLC | Estate planning, family law, and estate administration attorneys ready to serve families in Calvert County and throughout Maryland.
Every family is unique; whether yours is a blended family from across several marriages or not, you deserve estate planning solutions tailored to your situation and your goals. That is what the attorneys at the Greenberg Legal Group LLC provide, with the added bonus of being able to handle even highly complex family compositions.
To set up a consultation with estate planning and administration attorney Robert Greenberg in Calvert County or anywhere else in Maryland, call (410) 650-4242 or reach out online. It will be our pleasure to ensure your estate is in order and your wishes are respected throughout the Orphans’ Court probate process.