Trust and Estate Administration
At a loss with handling your loved one’s estate? Let us dive into the details with you and handle what you prefer not to or can’t. It’s what we do.
When you or your loved one is in need of settling an estate, you want the most efficient experience possible. Choose Borchers Trust Law to settle your estate after your death, and we will take the burden off your family.
We use our TrustCASE System to administer and settle your estate through a collaboration among family, trustees, executors, and lawyers. With TrustCASE, we provide timely family-lawyer communication and predictable legal services.
Our Asset Trust Organizer (ATO) is a proprietary tool that identifies, organizes, and tracks ALL of your assets, and analyzes your exposure to various risks. We use the ATO to help organize your assets during an administration.
Curious what to expect and when? Read our article After a Death: Actions to Take and When to Take Them.
The steps of settling your estate with Borchers Trust Law:
- You contact us to inform us of a death.
- We email you an Estate Administration questionnaire so we can collect more information.
- We arrange the first meeting with you to discuss our step-by-step estate settlement process and provide a fee agreement.
- We remain available to you during the entire process.
To further help you be better informed and plan accordingly, we provide a complimentary ebook, What to Expect After a Death: Administering an Estate. The ebook details what happens to your estate at death.
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