The plan you don’t make is the one your family pays for.
Wills, trusts, asset protection, and long-term-care planning built to keep control and wealth in the hands you choose — not the courts, creditors, or chance. Serving clients across Tennessee from Franklin.
Start Your Estate Plan Call (615) 599-1785Every plan you delay defaults to someone else’s.
Without a plan, Tennessee’s intestacy laws, the probate court, and the five-year TennCare lookback decide what happens to everything you’ve built. With the right plan, you decide — quietly, privately, and on your terms. Below are the core protections we put in place, and what’s at stake if you don’t.
Protections that decide who controls what — and when.
Wills & Revocable Living Trusts
Without them: probate, public records, delay, and a judge directing your estate.
A will directs your assets and names guardians; a revocable living trust goes further — avoiding probate entirely, keeping your affairs private, and letting a successor trustee step in seamlessly if you’re incapacitated.
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Irrevocable & Asset Protection Trusts
Without them: a lawsuit, creditor, or nursing home can reach assets you meant for your family.
Properly structured irrevocable trusts — including the Tennessee Investment Services Trust (TIST) — move assets beyond the reach of future creditors and lawsuits while preserving benefit for your family.
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TennCare & Medicaid Planning
Without it: long-term care can consume the home and savings before TennCare ever helps.
We use Medicaid Asset Protection Trusts and lawful spend-down strategy — with careful attention to the lookback — to protect the family home and savings while preserving eligibility for the care you need.
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Elder Care & Incapacity Planning
Without it: your family faces an expensive, public conservatorship to make decisions for you.
Durable financial powers of attorney, healthcare powers of attorney, and advance directives ensure the people you trust can act for you immediately — without going to court — the moment you cannot act for yourself.
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Three places the standard plan quietly fails.
Your most valuable assets — rental portfolios, a franchise, a closely held business — are exactly where Tennessee law sets traps a basic will never addresses. These dedicated practice areas exist because the stakes are highest here.
Real Estate Investors
Heirs can inherit the income from your LLCs but lose all governance — the Tennessee “Assignee Trap.” We structure ownership so control passes intact.
See how we fix it →Franchise Owners
Your franchise agreement may let the franchisor veto who inherits the business. We build pre-approved continuity before the transition clock starts.
See how we fix it →Business Owners
Decades of enterprise value can evaporate in one bad transition. We concentrate control, retain key people, and transfer value tax-efficiently.
See how we fix it →Start with a conversation, not a commitment.
Tell us about your family and what you’ve built. Our estate planning intake takes a few minutes and gives us what we need to map your protections — confidentially, with no obligation.
Begin Your Estate Planning IntakeClear, deliberate, and built around your goals.
We start by listening, then design the structure — will, trust, entity, or a coordinated combination — that achieves your goals with the least friction and the strongest protection. You’ll understand every recommendation in plain language before anything is signed.