Our Goal at Champion & Company is to help you ensure that your plans for the future are clearly stated and secured. At Champion & Company, LPA, we've been solving clients' problems through the practice of Estate Planning, Elder Law, Guardianship, and Conservatorship, Probate and Property Law, and Medicaid Planning, for nearly thirty years in Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Kent, Medina, Ravenna, Youngstown, and Warren.
Our firm belief is that there is nothing to fear about advancing age so long as you make plans to enjoy it. Estate Planning means securing your future and your family's future with advance directives, asset protection tools, and succession planning documents. Elder Law & Elder Care means helping you preserve your future independence with confidence that your wishes will be followed.
It means protecting you from creditors and predators. Probate Planning means ensuring that your intended beneficiaries & heirs receive your property after your death without unnecessary expense or conflict.
Our firm belief is that there is nothing to fear about advancing age so long as you make plans to enjoy it. Estate Planning means securing your future and your family's future with advance directives, asset protection tools, and succession planning documents. Elder Law & Elder Care means helping you preserve your future independence with confidence that your wishes will be followed.
It means protecting you from creditors and predators. Probate Planning means ensuring that your intended beneficiaries & heirs receive your property after your death without unnecessary expense or conflict.
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An attorney with more than thirty years of practice experience in Estate Planning, Elder Law & Elder Care, Probate, & Property Law, for clients in Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Kent, Medina, Ravenna, Youngstown and Warren.
Tim assists clients in devising and implementing wealth-preservation and estate planning programs which secure and maintain the client's personal freedom and financial independence through advancing age or during a disability.
He holds a BA in Political Science from Xavier University (Cincinnati), a JD from the University of Akron, and an Air & Space Law Diploma from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Tim assists clients in devising and implementing wealth-preservation and estate planning programs which secure and maintain the client's personal freedom and financial independence through advancing age or during a disability.
He holds a BA in Political Science from Xavier University (Cincinnati), a JD from the University of Akron, and an Air & Space Law Diploma from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
A "Will" is a written instrument which a probate court declares to be a deceased adult's valid instructions for the payment of debts, the disposition of property, the nomination of guardians of minor children if any, and the appointment of a fiduciary to administer a probate estate.
Only adult persons (over 18 years of age) may make a Will.
To be valid the Will must be written, it must be signed at the end by the "testator" (the maker of the Will) and attested to in the physical presence of two witnesses who can testify that they saw the testator sign the Will, that the testator was conscious, knew he or she was signing a Will and was not under any duress or undue influence.
Only adult persons (over 18 years of age) may make a Will.
To be valid the Will must be written, it must be signed at the end by the "testator" (the maker of the Will) and attested to in the physical presence of two witnesses who can testify that they saw the testator sign the Will, that the testator was conscious, knew he or she was signing a Will and was not under any duress or undue influence.
Powers of Attorney (POA) are written instruments which you, "the principal" use to give specific powers over your property and business affairs to a third-party agent, called an "attorney-in-fact".
You can give your agent very broad or very limited powers.
POAs are often used in the event of illness or disability, or when you can't be present to sign legal documents or make financial transactions.
Conventional POAs can lapse or become ineffective over time or if the principal becomes incapacitated, but "Durable Powers of Attorney" remain in force even in the event of disability, which is why "Durable POAs" are used to avoid the threat of involuntary guardianship.
You can give your agent very broad or very limited powers.
POAs are often used in the event of illness or disability, or when you can't be present to sign legal documents or make financial transactions.
Conventional POAs can lapse or become ineffective over time or if the principal becomes incapacitated, but "Durable Powers of Attorney" remain in force even in the event of disability, which is why "Durable POAs" are used to avoid the threat of involuntary guardianship.
An Ohio Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care is the instrument you use to express your instructions and intentions to family and physicians if you are unable to communicate and to designate and empower persons you chose to make decisions for you, including the authority to consent to treatment or to withhold consent to life-prolonging treatment in the event your body can no longer function on its own.
A Living Will is the instrument you use to specify what treatments you want or do not want in the event you are terminally ill and may state that you do not want to be artificially maintained on life support systems when your body cannot function on its own.
A Living Will is the instrument you use to specify what treatments you want or do not want in the event you are terminally ill and may state that you do not want to be artificially maintained on life support systems when your body cannot function on its own.
Probate is the legal process for administering a deceased person's estate - collecting the assets, paying the bills, distributing property to heirs and beneficiaries - after the death.
If you have a Last Will and Testament, probate administration will involve proving that your Will is valid, appointment of your chosen executor to execute your instructions, paying your bills and taxes, and distributing the remainder to your heirs and beneficiaries.
Adoption is the legal process by which parental rights and responsibilities and rights of support and inheritance are transferred from "birth parents" to third-party "adoptive parents".
If you have a Last Will and Testament, probate administration will involve proving that your Will is valid, appointment of your chosen executor to execute your instructions, paying your bills and taxes, and distributing the remainder to your heirs and beneficiaries.
Adoption is the legal process by which parental rights and responsibilities and rights of support and inheritance are transferred from "birth parents" to third-party "adoptive parents".
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