Tallgrass Estate Planning is focused on trusts, asset protection, and other important tools creating clear, custom plans to deal with life's important transitions. Laurel and Riley Carbone Kern founded Tallgrass Estate Planning, LLP in 2016 in their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their goal was to create a different kind of law firm - one that reaches out to people who are routinely overlooked by traditional law firms or people who are hesitant to work with traditional firms. Tallgrass Estate Planning has grown into a full service, home-based, family-oriented law firm that focuses exclusively on estate planning and elder law. So, what is estate planning and elder law? For many people, these terms seem impersonal and removed from their lives. "After all," they (incorrectly) think, "only wealthy people have estates, and that's not me." The truth is, an "estate" just means your stuff, your body, and your values - no matter how little or much your stuff is worth. Because everyone has an estate, everyone needs to have an estate plan.
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An estate plan answers important questions that apply to everything. Questions like: If something happens to you, who's in charge of paying your mortgage or other bills? Who's talking to your doctor about what to do next? How can you protect your assets if you're dealing with creditors or lawsuits or other financial difficulties? If your parents need help paying bills, do you have the authority to do that? That's estate planning.
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Elder law is a broad term that focuses on legal issues related to aging. Our elder law practice is focused on guardianship of incapacitated adults, Medicaid asset protection, VA benefits, and crisis Medicaid planning. What Does Tallgrass Estate Planning Do? Our estate planning and elder law practice involves the following tools and strategies:
Revocable living trusts
Irrevocable trusts and asset protection
Special needs planning
Last will and testament
Probate and estate administration
Trust administration
Guardianship for incapacitated adults
Medicaid asset protection planning
Veterans Aid & Attendance planning
Business succession
In short, no matter who you are or what you have, we help you answer critical questions about who is in charge of you and your stuff during health, disability, and death, as well as who benefits from what you have. Why Does Tallgrass Estate Planning Work This Way? Because estate planning is an intensely personal process, we have created an informal but thorough conversational process to discover clients' needs, priorities, and values, and then design and execute customized estate plans and services. We call this three-step process Discovery, Design, and Delivery. Throughout the process, Tallgrass Estate Planning, LLP is committed to the core principles of education, hospitality, and inclusion. Your assets, your priorities, and your concerns are different from those of other people, so your estate plan will be different from those of other people, but everyone needs a plan.
