Hedda Kolbeck
Founding partner, elder law
Plans for nursing home and memory care costs, files Medicaid applications and handles guardianship.
Estate and elder law, Sarasota
A plan that keeps up with you
Three lawyers on Main Street write trusts, plan for long-term care and settle estates, for retirees and the grown children who help them. Every plan comes back to us on a schedule, so it still works after a move, a sale, a marriage or a diagnosis.
How the practice runs
Four numbers we keep to
3
LawyersEach leads one practice and reads the others’ drafts.
1
Flat fee per planQuoted in writing before any drafting starts.
2
Meetings to a signed planOne to listen, one to sign. Drafts come by email in between.
36
Months from signing to reviewWe write when yours is due. The review meeting has no fee.
The team
The three people who read your plan
One of us drafts it, and another reads it line by line before you see it. Open a profile for admissions, courts, schools and languages.
Felix Varnum
Partner, trusts and special needs planning
Drafts revocable and special needs trusts, and the deeds and beneficiary forms that make them work.
Kwabena Asante
Attorney, probate and trust administration
Settles trusts and estates after a death, from the first inventory to the last distribution.
Practices
Four kinds of work, and nothing else
We keep the practice narrow, so the same people see the same kinds of files every week.
A revocable trust, a pour-over will, powers of attorney and a health care directive, with the deed and accounts moved into the trust.
For a child or grandchild with a disability, so what you leave them doesn’t end SSI or Medicaid.
A spending plan and the application when a parent moves to a nursing home or memory care, and guardianship if they can’t sign.
Settling an estate or a trust after a death, with the family member who was named to do it.
Who we work beside
Your advisers stay in the loop
A plan touches accounts, policies, taxes and care. With your permission, we copy the people who already handle them.
- Financial advisers
- CPAs and tax preparers
- Bank trust officers
- Geriatric care managers
- Insurance agents
- Title agents
Start with the papers you signed years ago
Bring old wills, trust binders, deeds and a list of accounts to a first meeting of about an hour, at the office or by video. You leave knowing what needs changing, who would do it and the flat fee.