Video Summary
Probate lawyers versus estate Planning lawyers. What is the difference? Well, let’s talk about estate planning. Lawyers first, estate planning lawyers are employed while you’re alive, and they do the planning for whenever you do pass away. They can plan your estate through a trust a will. Most of the time, whenever I speak with my clients, as far as estate planning’s concerned, they wish to try and plan their estate to avoid probate. A probate lawyer is the one that is employed by your executor or trustee to assist in the administration of the estate or the probate proceeding and or the administration of the Trust, so they are employed by your personal representative or heirs. And in order to probate your estate and distribute your assets after the payment of creditors after your death, so one, the estate planning lawyer is employed while you’re alive to plan your estate, the probate lawyer follows the plan and is employed after your death to administer the estate and distribute your assets to your beneficiaries. If you have any questions, give me a call at (727) 847-2288.