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Do you need to have an estate before you bother getting an estate plan? The answer is, probably, especially if you have minor children. Even if you are young with very little in assets, there are five estate planning tools that you should not live without.1. If you have minor children and you are lost to them while they are still young, who will take care of them?Guardians do not invest and distribute your money. The guardians are the ones who get your children up in the morning, make them do their...
It took Illinois five years but we are finally going to be compliance with a Federal law that was passed in 2005. It is called the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and it radically changes the rules of Medicaid qualification for the payment of nursing home expenses. I will write more when I have had a chance to review them. For now there is one very important point which is misunderstood by the media and even many attorneys. That is, Medicaid planning is not dead. The new rules make it more difficult but we...

About the Skokie Illinois Estate Planning Lawyer

Attorney Gregory P. Turza, J.D. estate lawyerGregory P. Turza, J.D. practices exclusively in the area of estate planning, post mortem estate administration, and elder law. He has been helping people plan their estates for almost 30 years. He provides practical and effective answers to complex problems with explanations that are clear, cogent, and accurate.


Mr. Turza has helped his clients gain peace of mind in knowing that they have control over their affairs, that their families will be taken care of in the event of disability or death, and that their estates will be administered without unnecessary delay, taxes, or administrative expenses. Mr. Turza believes that an estate plan should not only be technically correct, but it should be clear and understandable, so that the client feels "at home" with it, and also so that surviving family members find themselves in harmony instead of in court. To achieve this result Mr. Turza creates plans that fit each client's own unique financial, personal and family circumstances.