Welcome to The Riddle Firm, PLLC, where we specialize in Estate Planning, Elder Law, Probate, and Trust Administration to serve the families and individuals in Arkansas. The Riddle Firm provides the following services:
• Asset Protection: Asset protection planning involves making prudent decisions today to protect yourself, your business, and your hard-earned assets from loss due to lawsuits, cre
ditors or bankruptcies. Asset protection planning is especially prudent for professionals and business owners, whose personal assets could be at risk due the nature of their employment.
• Elder Law/ Long-Term Care: Elder law is another aspect of estate planning focusing primarily on the needs of families and individuals as they age. Issues of aging include senior housing and home care, long-term (or nursing home) care, guardianships and health care documents, Medicare and Medicaid.
• Special Needs Planning: Special Needs Estate Planning focuses on providing for the special needs of our loved ones with disabilities when we are no longer there to organize and advocate on their behalf. Parents of children with special needs must make careful estate planning choices to coordinate all of the legal, financial, and special care needs of their children - both now and in the future.
• Probate and Estate Administration/ Trust Administration: Are your assets protected? The Riddle Firm will be here to help you through the probate process, as well as future planning ensures your loved one's assets get to the right people without court or conflict.
• Incapacity/ Special Needs Planning: Estate planning for a family with special needs children comes with a complex set of financial, social, and medical issues that some lawyers are ill-equipped to handle. We ensure your child with special needs will be well taken care of when you are no longer able to do so.
• Family/ Small Business Planning: Whether you are just starting out or have been in business for decades, we can assist you with everyday matters. Not every business can afford or needs an in-house attorney, but from time to time they will need advice. Our firm can provide guidance in business formation, mergers and acquisitions, contract law, and many more issues. Whether you are a sole proprietor, partnership, limited liability company (LLC), corporation, or do not know what type of company you should be, we are here to help.
• Business Succession Planning: The family element in every family business can mean the difference between its success or failure during the transfer process. The retirement, disability or death of the business owner are all common events that can trigger a business transfer. Map out a clear business succession plan that answers questions like: who will run the business after you? Will it be your spouse, one of your children or a non-family member key employee?
• Planning for Blended Families: Many blended families face unique social, psychological and economic challenges. If you already have an estate plan created when you were"previously" married, then we can help bring it up-to-code to reflect your new wedding vows. Avoid the unique challenges for blended families by working with our firm to create a new plan for your new family.
• Medicaid Crisis Planning: Finding and affording quality care on short notice can be stressful and draining. We can help you determine the best options for care and how to qualify for Medicaid to help finance them.
• Estate Tax Planning: There are three distinct aspects to federal wealth transfer taxes that comprise what is called the Unified Transfer Tax: Estate Taxes, Gift Taxes, and Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes. We can help you avoid or minimize these transfer taxes through the legal planning included in our comprehensive estate planning.
