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Practice Areas

Estate Planning

Estate Planning is planning for your eventual disability and death. If you want to avoid probate, prevent family chaos, protect assets for your loved ones, prepare for Long Term Care, and simplify post-death administration, you must plan ahead.

Trusts

If you create a trust-based estate plan (as opposed to a will-based plan) you will likely avoid thousands of dollars in probate expenses, prevent multi-jurisdiction Probate problems for real estate, mitigate government interference, minimize taxes, keep your information private, prevent delays in asset distribution, take advantage of beneficiary asset protection, and reduce family conflict.

Wills

Unlike a trust, a will has no effect on your property while you are still alive. A will is a set of instructions to the court and must be probated. The expense of probate may be appropriate if your estate requires court supervision.

Financial Power of Attorney

An estate plan without a carefully drafted financial power of attorney may cost you thousands of dollars in conservatorship court proceedings.

Healthcare Power of Attorney / Health Care Directive / Living Will

An estate plan without a carefully drafted health care power of attorney may cost you thousands of dollars in guardianship court proceedings.

Asset Protection Planning

Your life can change in an instant.

  • A crippling accident
  • Loss of employment
  • Terminal illness,
  • Bankruptcy
  • Financially devastating lawsuit
With proactive asset protection planning you can safeguard selected assets such as your residence, investments, tangible personal property, and business interests.

Elder Law / Medicaid Planning

Long-term care in Kansas costs approximately $7,000 per month on average. Medicare does not pay for long-term medical care. Medicaid will pay for this care, but only if you financially qualify. A Medicaid planning attorney can help you financially qualify for Medicaid while protecting a portion of your assets.

Special Needs Estate Planning

If you have a family member or loved one with a disability or special needs, you likely worry about their future. If proper disability planning is done, your loved one will be provided for and cared for. If the planning is wrong, your plan can cause your loved one to lose government income and medical care benefits.

Trust Administration

When you take on the role of a Trustee, you must follow the directives of the trust you are administering. This is a "fiduciary" role which has legal significance. Advanced Legal Planning can help you navigate your responsibilities as Trustee.

Probate

When you take on the role of a Executor or Personal Representative of an estate, you must follow the directives of the court regarding the estate you are administering.Advanced Legal Planning, LLC in conjunction with its colleagues, can help you navigate your responsibilities as an Executor or Personal Representative.​ .

Why Choose Us?

The legal industry works a lot like the medical industry.  There are general practitioners and there are specialists.  If you have cancer, you want an oncologist. If you need estate planning, you want Advanced Legal Planning.

Advanced Legal Planning specializes in Estate Planning. With this specialization, we are able to handle everything from basic wills to complex charitable trusts. We have seen how poorly drafted estate documents can result in failure of the plan, expensive courtrooms, family confusion and even division. Our Mission and Process are born out of this experience.

We are an education-based law firm with no hard sale pitches. We provide education and counseling to individuals and families in the practice areas of Trust-based Estate Planning, Asset Preservation for Medicaid, and Asset Protection.

We help you identify the risks to you and your loved ones from the costs of Long-term Care, creditors, and predators. We help you safeguard your life’s work and achieve your planning goals.

Estate planning is not about how much money you have, it is about taking care of yourself and those you love. We help you ensure what you have, gets to the people you love, when you want, the way you want.

Education
To make good decisions, you need good information.  Unfortunately, what clients learn from friends and well-meaning advisors is often wrong. We explain your options so that you can make informed, confident decisions.

Vision Meeting
In the Vision Meeting we do macro-estate planning. During this meeting we discuss your family, assets, and estate planning goals. We also educate you about different estate plans so you can determine what plan best protects and provides for you and your loved ones. We believe going through this process is the best way to obtain clarity of vision about your estate planning needs.

Design Meeting
In the Design Meeting we do micro-estate planning. After you have selected your estate plan in the Vision Meeting, we provide education about the many options available within your estate plan. These decisions customize your plan for your unique circumstances.

Draft Legal Documents
Once your plan is designed and customized, we transform your wishes into a set of documents that will support your estate planning goals.

Estate Summary Approval
We create a summary of your estate plan for your review. You review the beneficiaries, fiduciary choices, and distribution provisions to ensure your documents match the plan we designed together. Once you have approved this summary, we will meet in office for a more thorough review of your estate plan.

Review and Signing Meeting
We review each document with you and explain how each may be used. After the review, you sign your documents, setting your plan in motion. Two witnesses and a notary public are provided so you can properly execute your documents.

Funding Meeting
If you choose an estate plan utilizing a Trust or Trusts, you will need to transfer designated assets into your Trust(s). This process is called “funding” the Trust. Additionally, you may name your Trust as the beneficiary of one or more of your assets/accounts. We guide you in this process.

Funding Review
A Funding Review meeting may be scheduled to check on the progress of your funding.

Meet the Attorney

Mark Allen Galloway

Attorney at Law

Education

Meet the Attorney

Trusts, Wills

Medicaid Planning

Special Needs Planning

Asset Protection

Business Organizations

Powers of Attorny

Why Choose Us?

Our Experience

Advanced Legal Planning is not a general practice law firm. Attorney Mark Galloway focuses exclusively on Estate Planning, Medicaid Planning and Asset Protection.

Our Process

At Advanced Legal Planning, we believe in teaching you what you need to know to be able to make informed decisions. We show you our options and prices ahead of time. You choose what makes sense to you. No sales pitch. No obligation.

Our Results

A lot of estate plans fail. Advanced Legal Planning seeks to overcome that trend. We take the time to understand what is important to you. We design a plan tailored to your decisions and offer options to maintain your plan into the future.

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