About Me
Attorney Amy N. Azza focuses her practice in the areas of estate planning and estate administration, trusts, probate, and elder law. Through clear communication and attention to detail, she strives to guide her clients through the complexities of planning out their estates and to ensure that they understand all of their options. With a welcoming hand, Attorney Azza counsels her clients in crafting and executing a plan that is right for them, their families, and businesses. With her twenty plus years of experience and sound judgment, Ms. Azza provides her clients with peace of mind by making the process of finalizing their health care proxies, durable power of attorneys, wills, and trusts as streamlined as possible all while ensuring that their objectives are realized.
How My Estate Planning Process Works.
I schedule an initial call or in person meeting with you to get started, I email you or present you with an estate planning questionnaire to fill out and then we have a follow up zoom call or in person meeting to go over the questionnaire. I then schedule a final in person meeting for you to meet with me in my home office in Bellingham where I present you with your documents and I notarize the documents and provide witnesses. The entire process takes about 3 weeks.
Why You Need Estate Planning
WHY YOU NEED A WILL
Wills can distribute your property, name an executor, name guardians for children, forgive debts and more. Having a will also means that you, rather than your state's laws, decide who gets your property when you die.
WHY YOU NEED A HEALTH CARE PROXY
A health care proxy is a document that names someone you trust as your proxy, or agent, to express your wishes and make health care decisions for you if you are unable to speak for yourself.
WHY YOU NEED A DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY
A Durable Power of Attorney provides extensive power to the individual who is assigned that role. Absent an appointed Agent in a Durable Power of Attorney, it would be necessary for a family member or loved one to petition the court to become the guardian over the incapacitated person.
WHY YOU NEED A REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST
A living trust protects your assets from probate and allows you to bypass the probate process, eliminating months of waiting and allowing your assets to pass directly to your beneficiaries upon your death. You can also manage trust assets for children in your trust and appoint a successor trustee to continue to manage assets for your children or beneficiaries upon your death.