Plainfield Estate Planning Attorneys

Lawyers Protecting Seniors, Retirees, and Families With $1 Million+ Estates in Plainfield, IL

Located in Will County, Plainfield is one of Illinois' fastest-growing and most desirable communities. It is known for its vibrant neighborhoods, family values, and strong local pride. At Gateville Law Firm, our Plainfield estate planning attorneys help successful retirees and families protect the wealth they have built through hard work, real estate investments, and smart financial planning.

We serve Plainfield and the surrounding areas, including Naperville, Shorewood, Joliet, Oswego, and Aurora, providing comprehensive, trust-based estate plans that safeguard your family, preserve your wealth, and ensure peace of mind for generations to come.

Why Gateville Law Firm Is Different

At Gateville Law Firm, we take a personalized and educational approach to estate planning. Our goal is to help families make informed, confident decisions about their wealth, their real estate property, and their legacies. We combine the sophistication of an estate planning law firm with the practical insight of real estate professionals, ensuring that your assets and your property will be fully protected.

A Reputation Built on Trust and Excellence

Voted Best of Fox Law Firm (2023–2025) and recognized as Business Partner of the Year by the Realtor Association of the Fox Valley, Gateville Law Firm is known for excellence, ethics, and exceptional client care across Northern Illinois.

Our firm offers a unique combination of estate planning and real estate legacy planning solutions to help clients protect both financial and property-based wealth. For many Plainfield families, real estate, including homes or investment or business properties, represents the foundation of their financial legacy. We can help ensure that these assets are titled, transferred, and protected correctly as part of an estate plan.

Whether you are preparing to pass down your family home to future generations, managing investment properties, or planning for business or farmland succession, our experienced attorneys will design customized, tax-efficient plans to help you protect your assets while focusing on your long-term goals.

Services That Go Beyond Standard Forms

When developing estate plans, many law firms rely on statutory powers of attorney and generic healthcare directives. While they are legally valid, these documents often:

• Fail to address long-term care and nursing home planning
• Leave out critical healthcare instructions that address complex medical situations
• Cause confusion for financial institutions and healthcare providers
• Increase the risk of court intervention when authority is unclear

At Gateville Law Firm, the documents we draft for our clients go beyond the basics. We create customized, comprehensive powers of attorney and healthcare directives that integrate seamlessly with trusts and other estate planning documents, ensuring that your wishes will be carried out without conflict or court involvement.

Comprehensive Planning, Not Cookie-Cutter Documents

Every family and estate is unique. We will take the time to understand your assets, relationships, and values. Each trust, will, and power of attorney will be custom-tailored to your situation, not copied from a template.

Our estate plans protect against the real-world risks that many retirees face, including long-term care expenses, incapacity, and probate complications.

Tax and Asset Protection Strategies for Affluent Retirees

We help Plainfield-area families that own $1 million to $3 million in assets design plans that include:

• Marital and family trusts to protect surviving spouses and children
• QTIP trusts and Illinois estate tax reduction strategies
• Asset protection for real estate, farmland, and investments
• Long-term care planning to preserve wealth from losses due to healthcare costs

Real Estate and Title Knowledge: A Unique Advantage

Real estate property is often a family's largest asset, and it can be one of the most common issues that could result in the failure of an estate plan to fully address a family's needs. With our background in real estate and title law, we can proactively:

• Review property titles and correct ownership defects
• Ensure that deeds are properly transferred into a trust or LLC
• Coordinate funding to prevent probate and future disputes

With this proactive approach, we can help Plainfield families avoid expensive legal issues and ensure that their real estate assets are properly protected.

Trust Funding and Ongoing Guidance

A trust is only as strong as its funding. We guide clients step-by-step through retitling real estate, financial accounts, and business assets to ensure that an estate plan will work when it matters most. Our goal is to make the process simple, organized, and fully executed.

Relationship-Based Legal Care

At Gateville Law Firm, you will work directly with Attorney Sean Robertson, a trusted Illinois estate planning and real estate lawyer with decades of experience. We emphasize accessibility, education, and long-term relationships rather than one-time transactions.

Avoid Common and Costly Estate Planning Mistakes

We help families avoid:

• Relying on a simple will instead of a trust
• Forgetting to update beneficiaries on retirement or insurance accounts
• Overlooking Illinois estate tax thresholds
• Leaving real estate or business assets outside a trust
• Failing to plan for incapacity or healthcare directives

Our team will take steps to ensure that your estate plan will function smoothly, both now and for future generations.

Why Families Choose Gateville Law Firm

The benefits of working with our firm include:

• A focus on estate planning for seniors and families with $1M+ estates
• Deep experience in real estate, farmland, and business legacy planning
• Comprehensive powers of attorney and healthcare directives that go beyond statutory forms
• Long-term care and tax minimization strategies
• Personalized service, organized binders, and trust-funding support
• Free educational seminars and private consultations

Contact Our Plainfield, Illinois Estate Planning Lawyer

If you are over the age of 50, retired, or planning for retirement, now is the time to secure your legacy. You can attend one of our educational estate planning seminars in the Plainfield or Joliet area and learn how to protect your wealth, real estate, and healthcare decisions while keeping your family out of court. Contact our Plainfield estate planning attorney to schedule a free 15-minute legacy planning consultation. Call 630-780-1034 to reserve your consultation today.