West Michigan Estate Planning and Small Business Attorneys
Eyestone Law Offices, PLC
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800 East Ellis Road Suite 511 Muskegon, Michigan 49441 USA |
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(231) 683-1000
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At Eyestone Law Offices, PLC, we help entrepreneurs reduce risk and maximize profits throughout the life cycle of their businesses. We take a similar businesslike approach to guiding families in their personal and financial planning. Our business, financial and estate planning services are designed to ensure that your life’s work continues to provide for you and your family even after you no longer can. Each solution begins and ends with you. Every business and personal situation is unique, so before charging you a cent or suggesting any course of action, we make sure we understand you, your business and your family and what you really are looking to accomplish. With that information and our knowledge of the law, we help you design a plan to make your life’s business work for you. We then continue to help implement that plan and make the necessary changes along the way when, as they say in the insurance commercial, “life happens.”
We pride ourselves on charging only for the value we provide and not just for the time spent. We work closely with you and your other advisors to develop cost-conscious and scalable solutions designed to address your needs both now and into the future.
Whether we are advising you about your family business or your family’s business, we look at the interrelationship between the big picture and details of each issue. We break down the big picture into three basic components that we call family, income, and fixed assets.
Our review of Family looks at you and your people, such as your family, friends, employees, church, charities, or anyone else you want to support. Services we provide in this area include life stage planning, such as financial and health care powers of attorney, prenuptial counseling, parental delegations, employment and non-compete agreement preparation and review, nursing home long-term care planning, and lastly estate planning, such as wills, trusts, family limited liability companies, etc.
In the income area, we look at how you support your people to ensure that your personal, professional, and financial goals are being met or to adjust course if they are not. This might be your small business, job, investments, annuities, insurance, social security, or other income streams. Our services in income include corporation or limited liability company formation, business succession planning, independent contractor agreement preparation and review, landlordtenant matters, retirement planning, etc.
Fixed assets are the last thing we consider, because these house or support your people and income. Nearly everyone would list their house and their car as their most important fixed assets. Other fixed assets would include your commercial real estate, investment property, vacation properties, and all of the stuff you need to run your family business or your family’s business. As your business or family life changes, so do your needs for fixed assets, and we help you analyze your assets to make sure that they are there when you need them and can be liquidated if their costs exceed the benefits. Services we provide in this area are real estate purchase and sale transactions, land contracts, real estate investment trusts, asset protection planning, etc.
