Chicago Estate Planning Lawyer

Serving Chicagoland Including Northwest Indiana For More Than 25 Years

Michael T. Sawyier, Attorney at Law, J.D., LL.M., LL.M. (Tax), offers highly experienced, reasonably priced professional legal services throughout the greater Chicago metropolitan area in trusts, wills, probate, and all areas of estate, business, and business succession planning. He will work in person with you, one-on-one, to plan, protect, grow, and pass on your estate in accordance with your expertly informed intentions. As your attorney, he will assist you to craft and carry out your own chosen estate plan in this larger sense, minimizing transfer and income taxes and preserving assets from potentially devastating health care costs and other liabilities. Thereafter, he will continue to work with you to adjust your estate plan whenever needed and will continue to assist your family whenever needed in the event of your death or disability. His focus as your lawyer is on preserving and enhancing your family's long-term wealth and financial security.

Totally Committed To Client Service

As described in his Firm Overview, Representative Estate and Business Planning Practice, and Representative Real Estate Practice qualifications, next listed, are expert professional services that include (among many others):

• Powers of attorney including health care proxies
• Irrevocable trusts to preserve assets for children and other family members
• Revocable trusts to reduce or eliminate the need for probate
• Wills and probate of wills and intestate estates
• Guardianships
• Family limited partnerships and limited liability companies
• Tax planning and the preparation of estate tax returns
• Asset protection planning
• Advice with respect to long-term health care insurance and contracts
• Applications to Medicaid for health care assistance

Mr. Sawyier invites you to begin your estate planning by reviewing the Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) that follow these materials.

For those who are interested, Mr. Sawyier has also included the text of two of his most recent presentations to the Chicago Bar Association's Trust Law Committee.