For North Carolina Residents
Estate planning
made easier.
Protect your family and make your wishes known, with NC Wills and Powers of Attorney. Includes customized documents, do-it-yourself pricing, and a complimentary 30-minute review with an experienced North Carolina estate planning attorney.
Starting at $550
Will Packages
A plan for who will settle your estate, what will happen to your assets, and who will look after your children. Includes your Will and Powers of Attorney.
Starting at $450
Powers of Attorney
When you don’t need a Will, but want to name who would make your decisions if you cannot someday, and how you’d like to be cared for if ever needed.
How It Works
Take it one step at a time
Start by registering for a free account and answering some simple questions at your own pace. Most people complete everything in about 15 minutes. We’ll email your draft documents for review, and you’ll wrap everything up with a brief signing appointment at our office. You’ll leave with your original, signed documents and more peace of mind.
Your plan protects what matters most
With the right plan, you decide how your financial and medical decisions will be handled and not the courts. Your family and loved ones are taken care of, and you can name guardians for minor children.
What to expect
Personalized documents in 3 simple steps
Answer a few simple questions.
Most people answer these questions in about 15 minutes, but you can take as long as you wish. Decide what’s right for you and your family to create documents customized to your specific needs.
Order your documents and receive drafts.
When you’re ready, order your document package. We’ll prepare your documents and email them for review the next business day.
Sign & notarize at your convenience.
You have two ways to make document signing a breeze. Simply schedule your 30 minute in-person appointment at our office and we’ll provide the witnesses and notary. Or you can do the signing yourself, after you’ve spoken an attorney in our office by phone or zoom.
important things you should know
Frequently Asked Questions
About NC Estate Plans Online
NC Estate Plans Online is an online document drafting service offered by The Elderlaw Firm. This is designed to assist NC residents who want documents designed by an expert NC attorney, through an online process that allows for lower, do-it-yourself pricing. Because documents are only effective after they are properly signed, we also have include a complimentary signing meeting and free 30-minute review with our office at that time.
We want to help more people to have proper estate planning. We fully understand that many people have routine estate planning needs. NC Estate Plans ensures that people can get the help they need, at prices that are lower than if they met first with our attorneys.
We see every day examples of the extra costs, delays, heartaches and headaches that improper estate planning causes. We hope that we can allow families to deal with untimely death and disability, and to have the peace of mind that proper estate planning brings.
The Elderlaw Firm is an estate planning and elder law firm located in Greensboro, North Carolina. We re are able to assist NC residents throughout the state of North Carolina.
If you are not able to come to our office for your complimentary document signing, then after we have a virtual meeting with you to review your documents we can email the documents to you for signing, or we offer a complimentary one-time shipment.
NC Estate Plans is a service of The Elderlaw Firm. We are a private law firm in Greensboro, NC. Dennis Toman founded The Elderlaw Firm in 1982, with the mission of providing our community with elder law and estate planning services to protect their home, savings and family. Dennis Toman is a NC Board Certified expert in Estate Planning, Probate and Elder Law.
Getting Started
An
estate plan provides instructions for what
should happen upon a
person’s incapacity or death. An estate plan
allows people to make sure
their wishes are known and respected. A proper
estate plan will make
hard times easier for ones, and provides peace
of mind.
A typical
estate plan includes a Will that designates the
person who will settle
the deceased’s estate, and states who will
receive an inheritance. The
Will also names a Guardian for minor children,
and can include a
Children’s Trust to manage a child’s inheritance
until they are old
enough to make good decisions (for example until
age 25 or 30).
Proper
estate planning requires having Powers of
Attorney to appoint a trusted
relative or friend (called an Agent) to make
financial and medical
decisions for you in you are not able to do so
someday.
Failure to
plan means the State generally results in more
expense, more delays, and
more heartaches and headaches, for both death
and incapacity.
Online
estate planning is best to reduce costs, for
routine planning and
typical situations. We have seen too many
mistakes when people do estate
planning that does not involve any attorney
review, or with documents
that are improperly signed.
That’s why we
have built amazing technology and include a
no-cost attorney review during your
complimentary signing meeting.
If
you have sizeable assets or a complicated
situation then you should
definitely retain an experienced estate planning
attorney.
But if you
have a typical situation then online estate
planning can work very
well, especially when paired with our
complimentary attorney review, and
save you money, too.
Sometimes,
yes. For example, you should hire an experienced
estate planning
attorney if you have a child with special needs,
or you are wanting to
avoid probate court, or if you have a son or
daughter who makes bad life
decisions. Also, getting your attorney’s advice
would be important if
you have sizeable assets (generally $250,000 or
more plus a house) or
want to protect against future nursing home
costs.
If you’re in a
situation where you think you might need an
attorney to customize the
right estate plan for you, you can call our
office at 336-378-1122. We
offer a free initial case evaluation so you’ll
know whether we can help, and the price you can
expect.
Most people complete the simple, step-by-step
questionnaire in 15 minutes or less.
But
if you prefer you can take as long as you wish.
Some people prefer to
take their time to answer the questionnaire. You
even can answer some of
the questions and then close the questionnaire
and come back later to
complete it.
The good news is this is simple
and you can proceed at your own pace. That’s up
to you.
A benefit of NC Estate Plans is that you know the pricing before you even start. Please visit our pricing page for pricing information. Also, we offer a 100% money back satisfaction guarantee.
Yes you can. North Carolina requires that the
lawyer needs to talk with the person before they
review and sign their documents.
If
you’re answering the questionnaire for someone
else, please make sure
to answer from their perspective. For example,
when the questionnaire
asks about marital status or children, you’ll
answer that for them not
yourself.
Anyone who signs estate planning
documents must have the
legal capacity to do so, and not be under any
constraint or undue
influence. That is another reason why having a
proper signing meeting is
important, to have documents that are legally
binding under North
Carolina law.
That
depends upon your situation and your goals. A
Will makes a person’s
wishes known in the event of death. If there are
assets that pass under
the Will then a court proceeding is required,
which is called “Probate.”
A Trust on the other hand is a way to avoid or
reduce the Probate
process. A Trust involves more work up front but
it can save time,
expense, delay, and family friction
later.
Generally Trusts are used
when there are significant assets (typically
$250,000 or more) that
would otherwise require probate. Trusts are also
used for tax reasons
and to preserve assets against future nursing
home costs.
You can ask
the attorney at your signing meeting whether a
Trust might be
advisable. If at your signing meeting you decide
to upgrade to a
Trust-based plan, the price of your NC Estate
Plans estate planning will
be 100% credited to doing a Trust for you
instead.
