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        |  | Home - Mississippi Ridgeland Attorneys406 Orchard Park Welcome Welcome to the website of the law offices of William B. Howell, Ltd. This website has been developed with you in mind and contains valuable information about our firm, the services that we provide, and what you can expect from us. We are glad you have chosen to visit our website and encourage you to return often as it is expanded and updated. Our Attorneys We are a small, two-attorney law firm practicing almost exclusively in the areas of estate planning and asset protection. We are intelligent, experienced, compassionate, and well respected attorneys who are committed to providing clients with competent and effective legal counsel in a variety of estate planning matters including wills, trusts, living trusts, and Mississippi Medicaid benefits. Our clients find us to be approachable, trust worthy, and exceptionally customer service oriented. At William B. Howell, Ltd., you, the client, are our first priority and we concern ourselves with your needs as if they were our own. We are highly qualified, ethical attorneys who are worthy of your trust and confidence. And, with our collective forty-five years of experience practicing law, you will always receive large law firm quality and insight with small law firm attention and care. Our Practice We attribute the success of our practice to our unwavering commitment to quality, our intimate knowledge and understanding of the law, and the long-standing relationships that we foster with our clients as well as the community at large. Since the firm's establishment in 1979, the primary focus of our practice has been living-trusts-centered estate planning& Medicaid planning, both of which fall under the area of law commonly referred to as Elder Law. More specifically, we help our clients to develop personalized estate plans and/or Medicare planning strategies that will help protect their hard-earned assets and provide for an appropriate allocation of these assets upon their death. In these days of remarkable medical advances, people are living longer, so it has become more important than ever to plan for your future and for the possibility that you may, one day, become partially or completely physically or mentally incapacitated. We find the use of living trusts to be particularly effective in estate planning today. In its most basic form, a living trust enables you to select the individual who will act on your behalf should you ever become incapacitated rather than relying on the court to make that selection. Moreover, upon your death, the selected individual will be responsible for the distribution of your assets in accordance with your wishes as set forth in the living trust. Most importantly, he or she will be able to do so without having to go through the probate process, which saves both time and money. Medicaid planning has also become more critical with the statistical increase in life expectancy. The reality is that, when the time comes, you may find that you don't qualify for or cannot afford long term care insurance. So, what do you do if you have to enter a nursing home? Will you have to spend all of your hard-earned assets just to qualify for nursing home benefits? You'll be relived to know that the answer is, "not necessarily". The fact is there are legal and ethical options available, which enable you to protect at least half of your assets (in most cases), even if you are already receiving nursing home care. Of course, it is always wise and usually more effective to complete the planning process before nursing home care is needed. Our Mission It our mission to establish long-term relationships with our clients. It is this philosophy that sets our firm apart from the rest. One of the most significant values that you receive as a client of William B. Howell, Ltd., is residual consultations. As part of our estate planning service, we offer our clients unlimited phone support at no additional charge. This mean that if you have questions about how an event in your life will affect your estate plan, all you need to do is call us and we will happily assist you. Moreover, most attorneys encourage their clients to have their estate plan reviewed every three years to make sure that major life changes or other events are adequately reflected in the estate plan. However, most attorneys also charge you for this service. We do not. We believe so strongly in the need for regular reviews of your estate plan that we will provide a general review every three years at no additional charge.* Our Commitment to You: Should you choose to retain our firm, we promise to:
We encourage you to contact us at your earliest convenience to discuss your estate planning needs. The time to plan is now. We look forward to your call. (*Please note that fees may be assessed if significant changes are required.) |