Practice Areas : Appeals & Appellate
Practice Areas : Bankruptcy
10 estate planning attorneys serve Wheaton. They prepare wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives and business succession plans, and review beneficiary designations that pass outside the will entirely.
Ask for the cost of a complete plan as a package rather than per document — most firms in Wheaton quote a flat fee for a will-based or trust-based plan. Ask specifically about funding a trust; one that is drafted but never funded does nothing.
Plans should be revisited after a marriage, divorce, birth, death, business sale or a move to another state.
Lawyers listed in Wheaton also cover Family Law (39), Divorce (28) and Criminal Law (16). The same practice elsewhere in Illinois: Springfield (7), Bloomington (7) and Chicago (5). Across Illinois the directory lists 29 attorneys in this practice; Wheaton is 1st by their number among 4 cities.