Trusted Estate Planning Lawyers Serving
Keller, TX
What You'll Learn
- Peabody Law Firm and our estate planning lawyers serving Keller draft wills, revocable living trusts, powers of attorney, and medical directives built around your actual family.
- Our will and trust attorneys will tell you which one your situation calls for rather than pushing a trust on everyone.
- Business owners get both sides handled in one place, since our business attorneys work on succession and ownership structure as well.
- A three-step process takes you from free consultation to signed documents. Call 817-775-9190 to start.
Three Decisions, Not One Document
What Our Keller Estate Planning Lawyers Draft
- Wills naming beneficiaries, guardians for minor children, and your executor
- Revocable living trusts that reduce probate involvement and control when beneficiaries receive assets
- Durable powers of attorney for financial decisions
- Medical powers of attorney and directives to physicians
- Specialty trusts, including special needs trusts and trusts for beneficiaries who should not receive a lump sum
- Business succession documents for owners whose company is the bulk of the estate
Will or Trust? Our Will Attorneys Will Tell You Straight
A will directs who receives your property, and it generally still goes through probate. A living trust holds assets during your life and passes them under its own terms without court involvement, which keeps matters more private and lets you stagger distributions rather than handing a nineteen-year-old everything at once.
Trusts are not automatically the right answer. They cost more up front and they only work if assets are actually retitled into them. Our trust attorneys walk through what you own and what you want to happen, then recommend the lighter option when the lighter option will do.
Keller Business Owners Have a Second Problem
If you own a company, your estate plan and your business documents have to say the same thing. A will leaving the business equally to your children does not name who runs it. An operating agreement silent on death puts your partners and your spouse on opposite sides of a negotiation nobody prepared for.
Our business attorneys handle entity structure, buy-sell provisions, and succession planning alongside the estate work. Because the practice is limited to business and estate matters, both plans get drafted together instead of by two firms that never speak.
The Part Where Most Plans Fail
Signing is not the finish line. A trust that was never funded does very little, and funding means retitling accounts and property into the trust and updating beneficiary designations so they agree with the rest of the plan. Retirement accounts and life insurance pass by designation regardless of what your will says, which is where plans quietly come apart.
We handle that step rather than hand it back to you, and we recommend a review every three to five years or after any marriage, divorce, birth, death, move, or business change.
How It Works
- Consultation. A free, no-obligation meeting about your family, your assets, and what you want to happen, followed by online tools to prepare.
- Follow-Up Meeting. Our business attorneys serve the Keller area, and go through your questionnaire and the specifics of your wills and trusts.
- Final Signing. A plain-language walk through every document before you sign.
Our Southlake office is a short drive from Keller, and we also meet by phone, by video, or at your home or a care facility when travel is difficult. Call 817-775-9190 or reach out online to schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most likely yes, especially with minor children. Without one, Texas intestacy law decides who inherits, and a court decides who raises your children. Those are the two decisions people least want left to a stranger, and a will is the least expensive way to make them yourself.
Most families will not. The federal estate and gift tax exemption stands at $15 million per person and $30 million per married couple as of January 1, 2026, with a 40 percent top rate above it. For nearly everyone, the reasons to plan are probate, incapacity, and children rather than tax. Estates near that threshold do warrant a closer look.
You can, and for very simple situations some people do. The gaps we see most often are guardianship provisions that do not hold up, trusts that were never funded, and beneficiary designations that contradict the documents. Our will and trust attorneys serving our Keller clients fix those situations regularly, and fixing is usually more expensive than drafting correctly.
It depends on complexity and how quickly your questionnaire comes back. A straightforward will-based plan moves faster than a trust-based plan involving real estate or a business. We give you a realistic timeline at the consultation rather than a number before we know your situation.
Possibly, and it is worth checking. Older documents sometimes contain tax formula provisions written under previous exemption rules that no longer divide assets the way the family expected. We review existing plans, including ones drafted elsewhere.
Talk to a Keller Estate Planning Lawyer
Peabody Law Firm, PLLC limits its practice to estate planning, probate, and business matters, and we draft plans around your actual family rather than a standard document package. Whether you need a simple will, a trust, or a plan that covers a company as well, the first conversation with our Keller area estate planning lawyers and business attorneys costs nothing.
Call 817-775-9190 or schedule a free consultation with our estate planning lawyers serving Keller.