Estate Planning Attorney in Jefferson County
Your Family Shouldn’t Have to Guess
Our estate planning attorneys in Jefferson County, Colorado, build wills, trusts, and powers of attorney around your family, and the same firm is there for what comes after.
A Will Alone Rarely Covers Everything You Own
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Estate Planning Built Around Jefferson County Families
Will Preparation
A will is the foundation of most estate plans, and it does one job well. It names who carries out your wishes and who raises your children if they are minors.
Our will preparation attorney focuses on documents that hold up when someone challenges them later. That means getting the signing right, not just the drafting, because a will that fails on a technicality helps nobody.
Living Trusts
Our living trust attorney helps you set up your assets to pass to the people you choose without going through probate court. It also stays private, while a will becomes part of the public record. Most families use a revocable living trust, meaning you can change or undo it at any time while you’re alive.
We build living trusts that are actually funded, with your house and accounts retitled into the trust. An unfunded trust is the most common planning failure we see, and it is entirely avoidable.
Powers of Attorney
A power of attorney lawyer works with you to help name who can handle your finances or medical decisions if you can’t. Without one, your family may have to petition a court for authority at the worst possible moment.
We draft financial and medical powers of attorney designed to be accepted when presented, because a document a bank refuses to honor offers little protection.
Estate Planning Services
Every family arrives with a different set of assets, relationships, and worries. Our full estate planning services start with understanding all three, then build a plan around what you actually have.
That means coordinating wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and beneficiary designations so they point in the same direction. Contradictory documents are worse than no plan at all.
Why us?
Families Helped Across Colorado
Years Combined legal experience
Locations: Wheat ridge & Fort collins
The Best Time
To Plan is Before You Need It
Most people call us after something happens. A diagnosis, a friend's family fighting over an estate, a new grandchild. You don't have to wait for one of those. Tell us what's on your mind, and we'll tell you honestly whether you need a plan yet.
How the Estate Planning Process Works with Us
free call
Tell us about your family and assets, and we will map the options.
clear plan
We draft documents that match your actual situation, not a generic online template.
Signed & Funded
We make sure the plan is executed properly and actually holds your assets.
The August & Suchowski Difference
FAQs
Not every family in Jefferson County needs a trust, despite what you may have heard. A trust makes sense when you own real estate, want to avoid probate, or need to control how and when beneficiaries receive assets. Our attorneys will tell you plainly if a will is enough.
A will takes effect after you die and generally goes through probate court in Jefferson County. A living trust can hold assets while you are alive and pass them without probate. Many families use both, since a will still covers anything left outside the trust.
Often it does not, which surprises most people we meet with in Jefferson County. Accounts with a named beneficiary, like retirement plans and payable-on-death accounts, pass directly to that person. As Michael puts it, a will is really a letter to the judge about everything else.
August & Suchowski recommends revisiting your plan whenever your family or finances change meaningfully. A marriage, a divorce, a new child, a business sale, or a move to another state can all matter. Signing documents once and filing them away is the most common mistake we see.
Estate planning cost in Jefferson County depends on what your plan needs to do. A straightforward will package differs from a funded trust with business interests involved. We discuss fees during the free consultation, before you commit to anything, so there are no surprises later.
A Plan Only Helps If It’s in Place
Areas Served
Proudly serving Wheat Ridge and the surrounding Jefferson County area, including Lakewood, Arvada, Golden, Westminster, and Edgewater.
Estate Planning Attorney in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
We're on Kipling Street just north of West 41st Avenue, a few minutes from the Kipling exit off I-70. Free parking is available on-site, and the suite is on the second floor with elevator access from the lobby. We also keep a second office in Fort Collins for clients in Northern Colorado.