As a self-represented person, remember you are acting as your own attorney. Our office serves as your personal “secretary”, making sure paperwork is prepared, filed and your case progresses.  In this regard, successful completion of your case requires the following:

• You must regularly check your email. This is the primary form of communication used by our office. If we email you a question and do not receive an answer, your file may end up “on hold” until we receive your response.
• You must follow directions. Our staff has spent countless hours creating instructions for our clients to help them along the way. If you do not read the instructions we send you, your case will undoubtedly be delayed. These delays result in staff spending more time on your case, and we will have to charge a reprocessing fee. How can you avoid reprocessing fees? Please carefully read all emails! We hate having to charge clients extra fees, but we simply cannot absorb the resulting costs to the office.
• The return of documents to our office triggers the next step. Although our case management systems helps you keep on track, if you fail to respond to action we have requested of you, your file may end up inactive until we hear from you.
• Do not ask us to change our processes just for your case. For example, if we have in place a system to file documents on an ongoing basis, but you want to file your own documents, most likely this deviation in the process will cause delays in your case. If we ask you to sign documents that we will need for the future, please sign them and return them. Clients hire us to help them get through their legal process as quickly and efficiently as possible. We have systems in place that allow us to effectively and efficiently do our job. If our steps are interrupted, the flow of the client’s case ultimately suffers.

If your case is routine and uncomplicated, you most likely will not need to hire a lawyer. Estate administration and probate proceedings are very routine and rarely require legal advice or the experience of a probate lawyer. Sometimes, however, a client may need legal advice on a particular issue. There are several different resources where clients can get brief legal advice without having to hire an attorney. If you find you are in need of legal advice of an attorney, let us know and we will give you options for low-cost legal advice that other clients have used.

Our contract includes unlimited communication by email. Phone calls from the client are not included and would incur an additional charge. This allows every client to determine their own level of services. Most clients find communicating by email to be fast, efficient and best of all FREE!  It’s strictly up to you, however, and we have staff that will be happy to speak with you by phone if you don’t mind the associated cost to do so.

Absolutely! If you need your legal documents prepared as fast as possible, ask us about our 24-hour rush processing. There is an extra fee for this, but you will receive your completed documents within 24 hours after receipt of your interview.

We feel we do offer the absolute best prices available and urge you to shop around. We have made every effort to keep our fees as low as possible while maintaining our professional standards as high as possible. When you do compare, make sure you are comparing apples to apples. For example, our probate and estate administration services are complete, meaning not only do we prepare the documents, but we also help file and manage the case through the various steps. In a probate case that often takes 7-10 months, so our added-value “management” services are critical in making sure the matter is timely completed without unnecessary delays.

You can get started right now through our website! Just fill out our contact form and choose the type of probate or estate administration services you need. Afer you submit that form, you will automatically be taken to our online interview portal which will allow you to sign up for the specific service you need. You can execute the required contract online, and then complete our interactive online interview. The information you give through this interview system is used by our staff to start your document preparation. You can also use our secure portal to upload documentation such as a copy of a will, trust, grant deed, death certificate, etc. Lastly, after completing our online interview, we wiill email you the informaton you entered in an organized pdf file. We recommend you to save this file because it is a great reference tool as you go through your legal process!