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Wills, Trusts & Estates

Serving Clients With Large and Small Estates Across Pennsylvania

From our offices in Media, PA, the lawyers and paralegals of the estates department of Eckell Sparks provide a broad range of trust and estate services for large and small clients in Delaware County and across the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Planning, Administration and Guardianship

Our attorneys help clients make their intentions known, optimize estates for taxation and administration purposes, and will serve as executors to ensure that your intentions are faithfully carried out. Our services include—

Basic Estate Planning

  • Simple wills
  • Powers of attorney
  • Living wills/healthcare declarations
  • Living trusts/revocable trusts

Estate Tax Planning

  • Marital deduction/credit shelter wills
  • Life insurance trusts
  • Personal residence trusts
  • IRA trusts
  • Grantor retained annuity/unitrusts
  • Charitable trusts
  • Family limited partnerships
  • Split-dollar agreements
  • Buy-sell agreements
  • Private annuities
  • Defective grantor trusts

Estate Administration / Trust Administration / Guardianships

  • Probate
  • Inheritance tax preparation and filing
  • Accounting
  • Will contests
  • Fiduciary income tax preparation

Litigating When Necessary

It is critical that people understand that the size of an estate or trust does not negate the need for appropriate litigation experience. We handle the planning and administration for estates and trusts ranging from thousands to millions of dollars.

Our firm works closely with financial planners, accountants, trust companies, insurance underwriters, and banking institutions to provide the highest quality of service possible.

The attorneys in our estates department have tax backgrounds, and as such they are able to use all techniques available to either reduce or eliminate estate taxes.

We have no cookie-cutter plans. We tailor our advice to each client. We are prepared to defend our advice and to ensure—in court if necessary that our clients’ interests and intentions as stated in their wills are aggressively protected. We also represent incompetents and minors in guardianship proceedings.

For further information on the services our estates department can provide to you, please contact one of our attorneys—

Guy F. Matthews
Chair of the Department
Phone: 1-484-842-0363 x232
Web: Contact Form
Fax: 1-610-565-7866

Joseph L. Monte, Jr.
Phone: 1-484-842-0363 x225
Web: Contact Form
Fax: 1-610-565-7866

Murray S. Eckell
Phone: 1-484-842-0363 x242
Web: Contact Form
Fax: 1-610-565-1596

Sam S. Auslander
Phone: 1-484-842-0363 x246
Web: Contact Form
Fax: 1-610-565-7866

 

If you'd like to talk about trusts and estates here, please fill out the "How can we help you?" form on the left hand side of the page, and we will respond immediately.

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344 West Front Street
Media, Pennsylvania 19063
113 East Evans Street, Suite D-1
West Chester, PA 19380
725 MacDade Boulevard
Collingdale, Pennsylvania 19023
Murray S. Eckell W. Donald Sparks Arthur Levy David E. Auerbach Joseph L. Monte Jr. Leonard A. Sloane Guy F. Matthews Sam S. Auslander Guy F. Matthews Sam S. Auslander David E. Auerbach Murray S. Eckell Joseph L. Monte Jr. Leonard A. Sloane