Estate Planning in West Virginia: Protect Your Family Without Leaving Home
The Skeen Firm offers convenient virtual estate planning for West Virginia clients. Meet with an attorney from home, receive customized wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare documents, and follow clear instructions for properly executing your plan.
Understanding Power of Attorney in West Virginia: A Guide for Individuals and Families
If you live in West Virginia, having a Power of Attorney (POA) can be one of the most important legal steps you take to protect yourself and your loved ones. A Power of Attorney allows you to give someone you trust the legal authority to act on your behalf if you can’t make decisions for yourself.
Estate Planning After Divorce in West Virginia and Pennsylvania: What You Need to Know
Divorce is one of life’s biggest transitions. While you’re focused on moving forward emotionally and financially, one critical step is often overlooked — updating your estate plan after divorce.
Essential Estate Planning
An essential estate package consists of five documents: a Last Will and Testament, a Durable Power of Attorney, a Durable Healthcare Power of Attorney, a HIPAA Release form and a Final Disposition Instruction sheet.
Essential Estate Planning - The Legal House Protecting Your Family
A house and a sound estate plan have tremendous similarities that do not immediately meet the eye. Both are comprised of a firm foundation to build on, solid walls to protect all sides, and a roof to shelter when the proverbial sky is falling. But a house is a legitimate structure and an estate plan is just a bunch of legal documents with no foundation, walls, or a roof. What gives? The analogy unfolds below.