Practice Areas
The knowledgeable and experienced legal representatives at Knauf Law are qualified to guide you through various legal matters including, but not limited to:
- Wills
- Trusts:
- Revocable Living Trusts
- Irrevocable Trusts
- Special Needs Trusts
- Pet Trusts
- Powers of Attorney
- Health Care Directives
- Digital Asset Inventory
- Probating the will with court and creditors
- Notifying beneficiaries
- Managing estate assets
- Paying creditors of the estate
- Filing final state and federal income tax returns
- Filing an estate accounting and closing the estate
- Irrevocable Trusts
- Revocable Trusts
- Special Needs Trusts
- Charitable Trusts
- IRA Trusts
- Asset Protection Trust
- Grantor Trust
- Gun Trust
- Land Trust
- Pet Trust
- Spendthrift Trust
- Testamentary Trust
- Assist Successor trustee
- Interpretation of terms of the trust
- Asset inventory, payment of debts/expenses
- Removal of incapacitated trustee if necessary
- Ensure proper distribution to beneficiaries
- Education
- Electronic equipment
- Eyeglasses
- Transportation
- Vacations
- Classes and activities
- Entertainment
- Special food items
- Estates with assets less than $100,000
- Small estate affidavits
- Transfer of vehicles
- Close small accounts
- Ensure debts paid and distribution to beneficiaries
- Estates with assets over $100,000
- Navigate the Illinois probate process
- Assist executor to gather assets and determine debts
- Ensure legal procedures are followed
- Timely distribution to beneficiaries
Elder Law
- Estate Planning/Pre-planing for Long Term Care
- Make personal decisions before crisis
- Name your beneficiaries
- Name of the executor of your estate
- Name guardian(s) for your children
- Manage dependent’s property
- Planning your medical facilities and treatments
- Giving access to your medical records
- Visitation rights
- Organ donation
- After-death decisions
- Estate Planning
- Will
- Incapacitated or disabled adults
- Minor children
- Guardianship of the person and/or the estate (financial)
- Purchase or sale of real estate
- Residential Property
- Guidance from contract signing to closing
- Legal protection when buying, selling, or building a home
- We protect your legal and financial interests
- Guidance from contract drafting, signing, and closing
Don’t see your legal issue listed? Call 630-875-0500 for a consultation and if we can’t handle it, we will be glad to offer a referral.