How much does an estate plan cost? This can really differ from attorney to attorney, and it is one of those areas where you get where you pay for. For example, if you do it yourself online and all you pay is $20, which is quite cheap for an estate plan, you're going to get an estate plan that's only worth about that and that might actually cause your family a lot of headache and heartache down the road. So you do want to find an attorney that can draft you excellent legal documents in accordance with the state laws that encapsulates everything that you want to see about how your assets go to your loved ones under what circumstances, who's in charge. But you also want to make sure that your attorney will keep in touch with you as life changes. Your life is definitely to change, the law will change, your estate planning should stay up to date to reflect that so you want an attorney who values a relationship over a transaction and who will keep in touch with you as things change.
I also recommend that you find an attorney who quotes on a flat fee basis versus hourly because if it's hourly you know the hourly rates but you may have no clue how much time your attorney would end up spending and so you really don't know what you're agreeing to. Everything that we do is flat fee agreed to in advance. When it comes to which estate plan package might be right for you, maybe the will plan is or maybe the trust plan is, and we help you figure out what's right for you at your first appointment and also our free talks and webinars that we do. Our will plan starts at 2000 and our trust plans start at 3500. When you're thinking about those fees and maybe comparing them to other attorneys who might charge a lot less, I would encourage you to really try to compare apples to apples and make sure that, that attorney who's charging less would actually do everything another attorney who might charge more would do.
For example, for us, an estate plan is not just about the legal document. Your legal documents are not going to do you any good if you stuff them away somewhere on a shelf or in a cabinet and nobody knows that they're there and exist and therefore nobody can act on your behalf when they need you to. Also, it's not just about the legal documents. Even if someone does know that you have a plan where to find it. It's about the legacy piece, it's about who you are as a parent, as a person, values, insight and your stories and experiences that would be forever lost if you don't somehow capture that whether through a video or a letter or some way of having conversations with your family and loved ones over time to make sure that they really know who you are because that's what your family's going to care most about. The legal documents will help them get through that transition time and we need those to be really solid, which we do for you but they're really going to care about photographs or a voicemail or a letter or a video.
We incorporate as part of our plan a legacy video, legacy letters where we make sure it's not just about the documents, we draft but it's about who you are as a person and your values and stories that might otherwise go completely missing and lost if that's not incorporated as part of your planning. We're happy to share more with you about our fee schedule, just give us a call. And we also go into our fee schedule and process during our free talks and webinars, which you're welcome to attend any time.