Emmeline Teasdale
Managing attorney, trusts and wills
Emmeline writes the trusts and wills. She is the one who asks what should happen to the house, the boat and the cabin.
Estate planning in The Villages
Your family's papers, finished and in one folder
Trusts, wills and powers of attorney for Villages homeowners, and for the grown children who will be asked to carry them out. You see the fee before the first meeting. We draft, sign and fund the plan with you, then hand over a folder that says where everything is.
What it costs
The fee comes first, in writing
Each plan is one flat fee, quoted in writing at the first meeting. It covers drafting, one revision round and the signing meeting, and nothing is billed by the hour unless you ask for something outside it.
Flat fee
Review of papers you haveA written read of your current will, trust and powers of attorney, with what to change.
Free
First callTwenty minutes to say which package fits, or whether you need one at all.
Sample fees; the firm sets its own. Court filing fees, recording fees and title charges are paid at cost and are not part of our fee.
The attorneys
Three attorneys, each with a corner of the work
Emmeline drafts the plans, Merrill handles care and Medicaid questions, and Sylvie steps in when a trustee needs help after a death. Every family meets all three before signing.
Merrill Yarborough
Attorney, long-term care and guardianship
Merrill plans for memory care and nursing homes and handles guardianship petitions when no plan was made in time.
Sylvie Hargreaves
Attorney, trust and estate administration
Sylvie walks trustees and executors through notices, accountings and distributions, one step at a time.
The work
Start from what you are facing
Four kinds of work, each with its own page, its own flat fee or written estimate, and the same folder at the end.
Flat feeLiving trusts and wills
A trust to carry your home and accounts without a court, a will behind it, and the deed that connects them.
See the packages
Written estimateServing as trustee or executor
Handed the job after a death? We explain the role, send the notices, keep the accountings and stay until the last account closes.
See how we help
In every packagePowers of attorney
Who signs for you, who speaks to the doctors, and what each of them may not do. Written to be read quickly by a bank or a hospital.
See the papers
Fee after a reviewLong-term care planning
Planning for the cost of memory care or a nursing home: what the rules count, what they do not, and when to start.
See the planning
Every package ends here
What goes in the signing folder
The originals, a copy for each grown child, and a one-page map of where the rest lives.
- Revocable living trust
- Pour-over will
- Durable power of attorney
- Health care surrogate form
- Living will
- Deed to the trust
- Medical information release
- Letter of instruction
Start here
Send us what you have, and we will tell you what is left
A will from years ago, a trust from another state, a power of attorney the bank turned down. Bring any of it, or nothing. You get a written answer and a flat fee before you commit to anything.
A first call is 20 minutes and has no charge. It does not make you a client.
