Your estate plan protects your assets. Does it protect your business, your family, and everything you've built?
We serve business owners and families who need more than a will — comprehensive trust, estate, and succession planning that keeps wealth working across generations.
Most estate plans stop where your real wealth begins.
You may already have a will. Maybe even a trust. But if you own a business, hold real estate, or have investments beyond a brokerage account, a basic estate plan leaves the hardest questions unanswered.
- Who runs the business if something happens to you — and who owns it?
- Will your family owe estate taxes they can only pay by selling what you built?
- Are your children prepared to receive what you're leaving them?
These aren't document problems. They're planning problems. And they're exactly what we solve.
Planning that covers everything you own
Estate Planning
Wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives — built around your family, not a template.
Business Succession Planning
Buy-sell agreements, ownership restructuring, and transition plans that let your business survive you — whether it passes to family, partners, or a buyer.
Tax-Efficient Wealth Transfer
Gifting strategies, grantor trusts, and entity structures designed to move wealth to the next generation while minimizing estate and gift tax exposure.
Trust & Estate Administration
Guiding executors, trustees, and families through probate and administration with clarity — especially when the estate includes a business or complex assets.
Family Governance & Next-Generation Planning
Helping families talk about wealth before they have to — so your plan works on paper and in practice.
Why Franklin Law
Planning for people who own things.
Most estate lawyers draft documents. We build transition plans.
One advisor for the balance sheet and the family.
Because our practice combines business law and estate planning, we see what single-discipline attorneys miss: the shareholder agreement that contradicts the will, the succession plan that triggers a tax bill, the trust that was never funded.
You get one advisor who understands both your balance sheet and your family — and who works alongside your accountant and financial advisor, not around them.
Three steps, no surprises
Consultation
A confidential conversation about your family, your assets, and your goals.
The Plan
A clear, flat-fee proposal — no hourly-billing surprises — with a gap analysis of any existing documents.
Execution & Maintenance
We draft, sign, and fund your plan, then keep it current as your life and the law change.
Asked in almost every consultation
Do I need a trust, or is a will enough?
It depends on what you own and what you want to happen. A will directs distribution after death but generally passes through probate; a trust can avoid probate, provide privacy, and manage assets during incapacity. For owners of businesses or real estate, the answer is usually a combination — we'll map it in the first conversation.
What happens to my business if I die without a succession plan?
Your ownership interest passes through your estate — which can leave the business frozen while probate unfolds, force a sale to pay taxes, or hand control to family members who never planned to run it. A succession plan (often paired with a buy-sell agreement) decides in advance who runs it, who owns it, and how it's paid for.
How does flat-fee planning work?
After the initial consultation, you receive a written proposal with a fixed fee for the full scope of the plan — drafting, signing, and funding. No hourly-billing surprises, and you know the cost before we begin.
I already have documents. Are they enough?
Bring them. The consultation includes a gap analysis of your existing will, trust, or shareholder agreements — many plans fail not because documents are missing, but because they contradict each other or were never funded.
The best time to plan was yesterday. The second-best time is before anything happens.
Whether you're starting from scratch or haven't looked at your documents in years, the first conversation costs nothing but an hour.