How Much Does Estate Planning Cost?

As you can imagine, we get the question “how much should my estate plan cost” quite frequently.

This is a good question that I want to answer for you as clearly as I can, given that there is not a “one-size fits all solution” for every family.

I would run quickly away from a lawyer who can tell you exactly what your plan would cost via email or over the phone, without a comprehensive discovery process.

Because you see, this is exactly why most estate plans fail.

Families shop around based on price (because they don’t know any other way to shop for an estate plan), and end up with a traditional plan, which is a set of documents that do not actually work when the family needs them.

If you’d like to read more about this, please read my article here on “how shopping around for an estate plan could leave your family with an unexpected, expensive, uninvited mess.”

Here is What I Can Assure You

I have designed and priced estate planning for you and your family at the intersection of affordability and effectiveness.

We start all of our plans with a Family Wealth Planning Session, which is designed to get you more financially organized than you have ever been before.

Even if you never do any planning with us, the Family Wealth Planning Session alone is a hugely valuable process for you and your family, because you will create a full inventory of your assets and ensure your family knows what you have.

Then, when we meet in person, we will review everything you own, and discuss everyone you love, and you will understand exactly what would happen to everything you own and everyone you love, in the event of your death or incapacity.

If you do not have a plan, we will cover the plan the State has for you. If you do have a plan, we will review your current plan with you. (We call this an estate plan review and check-up).

If you are not happy with your current plan (or the plan the State has for you), you will tell us what you would want to change, and we will look at the most effective, efficient and affordable way to achieve your goals.

Here’s the most important part for you to know about this: you will be making informed, educated, empowered decisions for the people you love, not just shopping around based on price.

You Choose Your Planning Level

With all of that background in mind:

  • Your Family Wealth Planning Session process is value of $750. Or if you have an existing estate plan that you want your attorney to review as part of this process, the your Estate Plan Checkup and Review is a value of $950.
  • Those fees are applicable if you come in fully uneducated without doing any homework ahead of time.

The great part is if you would like to do preparation ahead of time to make your appointment as valuable a use of your time as possible, then you can schedule online below, follow the instructions as to how to prepare for your appointment, secure your appointment time with a credit card (nothing is charged on your card so long as you keep your appointment and complete the preparation in advance), and then your appointment fee is waived.

  • The awesome thing about the preparation is that you will be more organized than you have ever been before because you will create a full inventory of your assets and ensure your family knows exactly what you have and where it is located.
  • I offer a complete zeroing out of the planning session fee in that case because your commitment to the preparation before the meeting saves me time, which saves you money.

If after reading this, you are ready to make informed, empowered, educated decisions for the people you love (instead of just shopping around for the cheapest plan, which is unlikely to work when your family needs it), get started by booking your Family Wealth Planning Session (or Estate Plan Review and Check-up) here.