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We are a small firm, which does not try to be everything to everyone. By limiting our practice to specific related areas of estate administration, estate planning, tax and business law, it enables us to keep current with the latest developments and strategies.
We give the best, most practical, and most timely service possible. We realize that estate, tax and legal concepts can be confusing to the average person. We strive to explain our advice in plain language so that our clients will understand our recommendations and the outcome following them.
We seldom go to court and when we do, it is usually in uncontested matters. Our lawyers endeavor is to be friendly and approachable. Our success is evidenced by the fact that a large part of our practice comes through referrals from our existing clients and their satisfied professional advisors.
Success to Significance
"This is mankind's age-old dilemma in the face of death: it is the meaning of the thing that is of paramount importance: what man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. Man wants to know that his life has somehow counted, if not for himself, then at least in the larger scheme of things, that it has left a trace that has meaning. And in order for anything once alive to have meaning, its effects must remain alive in eternity some way."
-- Ernest Becker
Did you know?
- 80% of all Americans do not have a Will.
- 75% of all charitable gifts in the Metro Denver area come from individual donors. Only 5.8% of charitable donations come from businesses.
- 90% of individuals gave something to charity last year, averaging 2.5% of their annual income, but the level of giving has not increased in the last decade.
- Only 2% of all taxpayer's have estates which exceed the amount of the federal estate tax exemption and are subject to the federal estate tax.
- Of the estimated 18 million business enterprises in the United States, more than 80% are family owned. Without proper planning, only 30%, of these businesses will survive into the second generation, and only 15% will survive into the third generation.
- The Internal Revenue Code Section 341, contains a single sentence that is longer than the entire Gettysburg Address.