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Practice Areas For Pennsylvania Trust, Estate Planning, and Probate Attorneys Unruh, Turner, Burke & Frees

With law offices in Phoenixville, Malvern, and West Chester, we help our Pennsylvania clients including many high net worth families and individuals with estate planning, trust, and probate and related legal issues. Specifically, our practice areas include estate planning, inheritance and business succession planning and related legal matters, family estate and inheritance disputes, asset protection planning, wills and trusts, executor and trustee assistance, estate dispute resolution, and elder law planning to protect assets from nursing home costs.

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Mediation For Estates and Trusts

David Frees offers mediation and  alternative dispute resolution for Executors, Trustees, and Beneficiaries interested in quickly, fairly, and economically resolving disputes over wills, trusts, and estates. David M. Frees has over 24 years of experience in estate and trust administration and in resolving the problems and competing claims of executors, trustees and beneficiaries.

Mediation can often save family relationships, time, and considerable expense associated with litigating family will disputes.

Mr Frees also helps to train some of the most successful and accomplished mediators in Pennsylvania and began his own training in mediation and alternative dispute resolution while a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

The System For Protecting Your Assets for Your Self and Your Heirs

Estate planning for families, executives, and business owners. A proven and effective system for preserving family wealth, assets, and your family values and business, investing and other knowledge that might be lost. This system also avoids family disputes and focuses on the traditional goals of wealth preservation and tax savings as well as asset protection and protecting heirs from law suits and divorce. The best will, trust and estates lawyers in Chester County and Montgomery County Pennsylvania are focused on creating customized plans that do exactly what you need and want.

Asset Protection

Your business and assets can be at risk if you do not have an Pennsylvania asset protection plan in place. David M. Frees, III, an experienced Pennsylvania asset protection lawyer, works with individuals who are looking for sophisticated asset protection in Chester County and Montgomery County and in suburban Philadelphia. He limits his practice to Pennsylvania asset protection, estate planning, estate administration, representing executors, tax planning, wills and trusts. Contact Mr. Frees today at (610) 933-8069 for legal advice regarding protecting your assets.

Estate and Inheritance Tax Planning

Excessive estate and inheritance tax can significantly deplete the amount of money left to your heirs. There are many strategies available that will help reduce the tax liability of your beneficiaries. David M. Frees, III, a knowledgeable Pennsylvania estate tax planning lawyer, has over 23 years of experience and can assist you with estate and inheritance tax planning. Contact Mr. Frees today at (610) 933-8069 for legal advice regarding your estate.

Protecting Heirs from Divorce and Litigation

Protecting children and grandchildren from possible divorce litigation, judgments and other claims is usually a top priority for estate owners. There are strategies and legal techniques available that can protect an inheritance. If you are an estate owner or if you are expecting an inheritance, contact David M. Frees, III, an experienced estate planning attorney, at (610) 933-8069.

Wills and Trusts

A legal will is designed to let your intentions be known and usually includes the entire estate. To avoid potential disputes among beneficiaries, a will should be carefully drafted by a Pennsylvania wills attorney. A trust is also an essential estate planning tool that will detail how the estate will be distributed. Through the use of a trust, you have the ability to decide which beneficiaries are to receive certain assets and how these assets will be given. David Frees specializes in helping clients with their wills and trusts and prepares these documents based on each individual circumstance.

Executor, Trustees and Probate

Executors and trustees face an immense responsibility. Probate, trusts and estate administration can be complex. David M. Frees, III is an experienced Pennsylvania probate attorney who can help ensure that an estate is properly distributed. Contact Mr. Frees today at (610) 933-8069.

Elder Law Trusts, Contracts, Checklists and Solutions

We now have a new site specifically designed and created for families and individuals facing nursing home care, elder abuse or neglect cases, and estate planning for the elderly.

To visit the site and download any number of our free reports on protecting your home from nursing home spending, how to use trusts in elder law planning, and on many related topics click: www.PaElderLawSolutions.com or www.PaElderlawSolutions.com/reports. 

Ideas and Information That Make Life Better

David M. Frees III is not just your lawyer. He is a speaker, author, and according to Elite books, one of the fifty most influential thinkers about business today. David has been traveling the globe for business and personal pleasure alone, with his wife, and with his family since he was very young. Now David brings you ideas and information to help to make your travel, your health, your business and personal life even better. These ideas, tools, resources and products range from communications skills to business tools, to travel, sports, and technology. Enjoy!

David M Frees III, Esquire dfrees@utbf.com 610-933-8069 If you: 1.) have been appointed as an executor or trustee, or 2.)  want to create a will, trust, power of attorney, a comprehensive estate plan, or 3.) are worried your will is out of date or no longer says what you want, or 4.) think that you might need a trust or estate plan that really works and holds up.... Then call and ask one of David's assistants at 610-933-8069 to set up an appointment and to see if you can work directly with David or one of his partners, or associates. It may be one of the most important calls that you ever make. David's AVVO rating is Superb! 10.0 David Frees on Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/davidfreesesq David Frees on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfrees Unruh, Turner, Burke, and Frees Estate Planning Blog: http://www.utbf.com/trust-estate Executor and Estate Planning Blog: http://paestateplanners.com/ What do clients and lawyers say about David M. Frees III? Click here for more information. Do you have a family dispute involving a will, trust, estate or family business? Are you looking for a way to avoid the high costs and delays of litigation? Trying to find a way to keep family relationships intact?

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