Death with Dignity Kurtz & Peckham, PC lawyers can help you draft a “living will” or “advanced medical directive” that allows you to express your wishes about limiting medical measures that could be taken to save your life. Please see our section explaining Living Wills. Advanced Medical Directives Compassionate Care Kurtz & Peckham, PC can […]

We are Denver Colorado’s Estate Planning Attorneys Preparing For Death Is An Aspect Of Life In Which You Can Work To Mitigate Taxes While Providing For Your Children And Other Heirs & Beneficiaries Estate planning is for everyone. We offer estate planning services to a broad variety of clients with different backgrounds and means. Estate […]

Estate Planning Abatement: The reduction of a legacy because there is not enough property in the estte to pay it. Ademption: When someone is left specific property by will, and on death the property is not owned by the decedent, the gift fails (is adeemed). Administrator: A male person or corporation appointed to probate and […]

Will The Courts Recognize My Living Will? Colorado has officially recognized the living will in the Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act. This Act is codified at Colorado Revised Statute, Sections 15-18-101, et seq. Under the Act, a mentally competent person 18 years or older may execute a declaration that any medical procedures or interventions which […]

Advanced Medical Directive: written instructions, such as a living will or durable power of attorney, given by patients about the kind of health care they want to receive if they become unable to make their own treatment decisions. Agent: the person who is named under a medical durable power of attorney to make your health […]

Kurtz & Peckham, PC’s estate planning services include drafting and executing powers of attorney in a convenient and inexpensive manner. Powers of attorney can be extremely useful for those persons who are concerned about their own possible loss of capacity to handle financial affairs in the future. A power of attorney must be executed by […]

Probate is the legal process by which a person’s debts are paid and assets distributed upon his or her death. Estate administration includes the probate process as well as non-probate transfers of the deceased’s assets. In addition to our estate planning services, Kurtz and Peckham, PC provides compassionate personal support and counsel in the settlement […]

A testamentary trust is a substitute for an outright gift under your will. A trust is an arrangement under which you give your property to somebody else and he or she holds it for your or your beneficiaries. You will want to give the other person directions concerning how the property is to be managed, […]

Basic Will Preparation in Denver, Colorado Introduction to Wills Dying without a will can result in your property being distributed in a manner you may not wish. A will is a simple and inexpensive tool that can take care of all the property you now have and all the property you may have when you […]