• Wills
• Trusts
• Powers of Attorney (financial and medical)
• Joint ownership and survivorship accounts 
• Beneficiary and TOD designations
• Guardianship and Conservatorship
• Minor Guardianships (full, limited and court-structured)
• Business succession planning

• Reviewing a decedent's records to determine if probate is necessary
• Administering formal, informal and supervised Probate 
• Small (shortcut) estate proceedings
• Surviving spouse share, spousal allowances and elections
• Burial and hospital expenses
• Creditor claims
• Inventory of Probate assets
• Joint accounts and "convenience" accounts
• Real estate valuations and sales
• Final tax and fiduciary returns
• Beneficiary accountings
• Challenges and litigation in Probate
• Agreements to divide shares other than as stated by a Will or intestate succession

• Review of Trust documents
• Advice to Trustees and beneficiaries
• Assistance with Trust administration duties
• Funding the Trust from a Pour-Over Will
• Notice to Creditors
• Paying claims from Probate estate
• Trustee communications with beneficiaries
• Prepare or review accountings
• Probate Court hearings to get approval for Trustee actions
• Distributions to beneficiaries 
• Challenges to accountings or distributions
• Changing or dissolving the Trust

• Residential sales (For Sale By Owner or with broker listing)
• Sales by Probate Estates or Trusts
• Land Use Planning and Zoning
• Easements, boundary disputes and litigation
• Cottage trusts or LLCs
• Farming LLCs

• Adult guardianships: for legally incapacitated or developmentally disabled individuals
• Minor guardianships:  full, limited and court-structured
• Challenge, modify or terminate an existing guardianship
• Prepare or review accountings for Guardians and Conservators
• Challenges to accountings or other actions of Guardians or Conservators
• Abuse and Neglect
• Direct placement adoptions

Skriba Law Office, PLC
124 E. Washington, Ste. C
Dewitt, Michigan  48820
(517) 277-8200
FAX (517) 277-8201
 info@skribalaw.com