Estate Planning & Trust Administration
Special Needs Planning
Special Needs Planning: planning for incapacity and death, and administering trusts and estates without a contest.
How a matter moves
Special Needs Planning, from intake to resolution.
- 1
Client interview and asset review
- 2
Plan design
- 3
Drafting and signing
- 4
Funding and updates
- 5
Administration after death
Documents you will use
- Wills and revocable trusts
- Powers of attorney and health directives
- Trust amendments
- Petitions and notices to heirs
- Accountings
What to track on every Special Needs Planning matter
- Signing and funding completion
- Beneficiary designations
- Creditor and notice periods
- Tax filing dates
- Distribution schedules
Where JILL helps
- Drafts plan documents from the intake questionnaire
- Prepares notices and accountings from asset records
- Flags inconsistencies between documents and designations
On Discover Docket
Email, deadlines, research and billing, connected.
Special Needs Planning runs on the same platform as every other practice area, across all 52 U.S. jurisdictions. The message in front of you becomes the matter, the deadline and the time entry, and JILL works from your case file and a knowledge base of over a billion records that goes beyond court filings.
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