Services
Manley Law, PC serves as general legal counsel for clients by providing custom-designed estate and business planning for families, and preventive business law for closely-held companies.
Estate Planning Services- Serve as general counsel and “quarterback” for families.
- Assist and advise clients in structuring of family and business succession plans.
- Coordinate with client’s advisors in establishing and maintaining client’s plans.
- Introduce and implement the family dynasty program into client’s estate plans.
- Prepare wills, living wills, durable general powers of attorney, authorization for release of health care records pursuant to HIPAA, health care powers of attorney, and mental health care power of attorney.
- Prepare pet trusts; child information protective documents and implementation of family dynasty plans.
- Prepare revocable, irrevocable and family fortress dynasty trusts.
- Assist clients in preparing statement of wishes, rewards programs, and other specialized child related documents.
- Prepare charitable remainder and grantor-retained annuity trusts.
- Prepare multi-generational (dynasty) trusts.
- Prepare family limited partnerships and family limited liability companies.
- Preparation of pre-marriage and post-marriage agreements.
- Plan and carryout lifetime gift programs.
- Prepare all transfers of assets from individuals to trusts or to businesses.
- Represent personal representatives and conservators in administering estates during probate.
- Represent trustees in administering trusts.
- Ensure the children's concerns are integrated into the plan.
- Available for negotiations on behalf of the family.
- Mediate family challenges.
- Educate husband, wife, children, and designated beneficiaries, so that everyone understands the plan.
- Assist in organizing difficult visitation issues with ex-spouses or other family members.
- Develop and maintain a maintenance plan.
- Understand each client’s preferred method of communication and establish a communication system best suited for each client.
- Review existing legal documents clients may have and provide an opinion on the quality and effectiveness of the documents.
- Analyze tax returns to develop tax savings strategies.
- Assist families in articulating their goals and integrating the client's objectives into the plan.
- Implement “ultimate freeze” or prepare fractional share planning.
- Arranging and supervising other professionals as needed; supervising as quarterback.
Corporate Services
- Serve as general counsel for closely-held and professional corporations.
- Design and counsel on choice of entity for business formation.
- Form corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and other legal entities.
- Facilitate and conduct effective business meetings.
- Prepare minutes of meetings and maintain minute books for corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and qualified plans.
- Structure employment agreements with key personnel, professional employees and independent contractors.
- Advise and assist management on day-to-day operational and business matters.
- Advise on management and shareholder issues.
- Prepare buy-sell agreements and shareholder agreements.
- Advise and prepare agreements for the merger and acquisition of business interests, including all collateral documents.
- Advise and prepare non-qualified deferred compensation plans and other executive compensation plans.
- Set up non-profit corporations and qualify such corporations for tax exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.
- Design and counsel on business dissolution.
- Dissolve and liquidate corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies.
- Conduct independent reviews on businesses that already have in-house counsel.
- Forensic law for closely-held businesses.
- Provide second opinions for clients regarding potential business ventures.
- Help entrepreneurs put deals together from the bottom up.
- Create family corporations to provide income tax deductions and fringe benefits for family.
- Conduct meetings for family members to develop a business succession plan.