Living Trust Estate Planning

Elder Law

As a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Jeff Dorko's elder law practice focuses on the legal needs of seniors, and of those approaching their retirement years. Our Berks County law office handles elder law issues including estate planning, planning for incapacity, and financial and tax planning.

Estate Administration

When you suffer the death of a loved one, the Law Office of Jeffrey Dorko offers as much assistance as you desire to make the Berks County PA estate administration proceed smoothly, efficiently, and as economically as possible. Call the Law Office of Jeffrey Dorko in Reading Pennsylvania to find out what to do, and what NOT to do.

Your Estate Plan at the Law Office of Jeffrey Dorko

Passing your wealth on to your heirs through your estate requires more than just a will, especially if your goal is to protect your assets from estate taxes and avoid probate.

Living Trusts - Living Trusts are one of the most common estate planning tools in use today. This legal arrangement creates a separate entity called a Living Trust. A Living Trust is called that simply because it is created while you are alive (as opposed to a "testamentary" trust which is a part of your Will and only comes into effect after death).

Who needs a Living Trust? Almost anyone with an estate of $100,000 or more can benefit from having a living trust. Estates of $100,000 or more are often subject to probate, which can cost up to 5% of the estate's value in court and legal fees.

More sophisticated living trusts can be structured for more complex family situations. Remarried spouses with children from a previous marriage can use an advanced estate plan using a revocable living trust to ensure their children receive their proper inheritance.

Avoiding probate. Living Trusts avoid probate, and are completely private. The courts have no control over the Trust's assets, and do not tie up the assets in a lengthy and costly probate process.

A History of Living Trust Estate Planning
in Berks County Pennsylvania

Living Trust estate planning in Berks County, originally avoided by the older traditional lawyers who did not want to see their future probate fees disappear, now has become established as one of the preferred methods of estate planning in Berks County.

Living Trust estate planning in Berks County, PA. was available to sophisticated legal clients before 1990. After that time, Living Trust estate planning in Berks County, PA became popular with the general public. This was greatly due to public seminars on Living Trust estate planning by Berks County attorney Jeffrey F. Dorko.

With over 16 years of experience in Living Trust estate planning in Berks County, Jeff Dorko helped to change the landscape of Living Trust estate planning in Berks County Pennsylvania. In the early 1990's, clients who requested living trust estate planning from their traditional family lawyers, were discouraged by those lawyers. However, with the knowledge gained in Jeff Dorko's seminars, these clients now have forced even the most change resistant attorneys to learn about living trusts and to provide living trust estate planning when requested.

As a result, clients who do living trust estate planning in Berks County PA have an estate plan which will help them while they are living, if they become disabled, and will distribute their estate at their death in the manner they desire while greatly reducing attorney's fees for their family.

Appointments

Make an appointment with Jeff Dorko by calling (610) 926-3333.

Jeffrey F. Dorko, Attorney at Law
DORKO WEALTH & ESTATE PLANNING
999 Berkshire Blvd., Suite 110
Wyomissing, PA. 19610

Living Trust Estate Planning in Berks County, Pennsylvania