Estate Planning

At Kreder Brooks Hailstone LLP in Scranton, estate planning attorneys assist individuals, owners of closely-held companies, corporations and executives throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania with sophisticated legal counsel in business and estate planning, ensuring smooth transitions in leadership and minimizing unnecessary losses to taxation.

Estate planning attorneys at Kreder Brooks Hailstone apply extensive expertise and innovative strategies on behalf of our clients. It is our goal to assure that your estate passes to your heirs as you desire while minimizing the impact of federal and state estate and inheritance taxes on your assets. Attorneys in our business law practice work closely with attorneys in our estate planning practice to develop strong and effective solutions for companies and business owners.

Estate planning and probate services we provide include:

• preparing wills, living wills, durable powers of attorney for health care, health care proxies and limited powers of attorney
• structuring of revocable and irrevocable trusts, including special needs trusts, supplemental needs trusts for those who require long-term care, life insurance trusts and charitable remainder trusts
• probate litigation and appeals at all levels of state and federal courts
• transition planning for business, buy-sell agreements and life insurance counseling
• probate, estate and trust administration
• plans for charitable gifting, family gifting and family foundations

The estate planning attorneys at Kreder Brooks Hailstone provide a broad range of legal services to clients in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg, Honesdale, Milford, Tunkhannock, Carbondale, Hazelton and other communities throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. If you would like to speak with one of our estate planning attorneys, or if you have any questions about our firm or our services, please contact our office.