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Estate Planning

Estate Planning Lawyers Focused on Quality in Service

Ziegler Metzger LLP has provided Counsel of Good Value since 1952. We provide comprehensive estate planning services for professionals, business executives, entrepreneurs, professional athletes and other individuals throughout Ohio.

Located in Cleveland, Ohio, ZM is one of the leading estate planning law firms in the region. We are listed among the Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers. You can schedule an initial consultation with one of our attorneys by contacting our offices any time.

Diligently Addressing Your Estate Planning Needs

We provide a full range of services to meet the specific estate planning needs of our clients and to minimize income, gift, estate and generation-skipping taxes. Our estate planning attorneys have experience in a wide range of estate planning techniques. From simple wills, powers of attorney, living wills and health care directives to the more complex A-B trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), generation-skipping trusts, qualified domestic trusts (QDOTs) and asset protection vehicles, our experience makes us uniquely qualified to handle the estate planning needs of any client.

Our attorneys work closely with clients and charitable organizations in many charitable giving techniques, such as charitable remainder unitrusts and annuity trusts (CRUTs and CRATs), charitable lead trusts, private foundations and donor advised funds. The lawyers handling estate planning at our firm include:

In addition, Tom Austin is a CPA who handles estate planning matters exclusively and Tim Resor is a paralegal who provides valuable support handling income tax preparation and administration of estates and trusts.

International Estate Planning. Individuals who live in the United States but who are not citizens face a unique set of challenges in estate planning. In addition, U.S. citizens who own property overseas need to take specific measures in planning their estates. Learn more.

Care Management for Incapacitated Clients

You may be responsible for providing care for someone who is unable to live independently, or you may be considering the possibility of needing such care yourself in the future. We can help. Learn about Margaret Mendenhall, our Client Care Management specialist on our care for incapacity page.

Individualized Service

As a mid-sized law firm, we deliver personal, individualized services to each client. Clients work directly with the lawyer or lawyers handling their estate plan. Our attorneys work continually with clients and their families over a period of years and even decades as each estate matures and develops.

We come to know our clients well, and we work to stay sensitive to the nuances that make each estate different. Our clients come from across the nation, including, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Texas, Arizona, California and others. Our firm has many clients who are Florida residents or spend significant time in Florida. We are licensed to practice in Florida and we are able to serve both local and out-of-state needs for all of these clients.

To schedule an initial consultation with a lawyer at our firm, contact our offices today.

Precisely what you need.

The qualities that make a good partnership feel like the right partnerships are sometimes hard to get your arms around. When you're working with a law firm that's made up of professionals who truly work well together on their clients' behalf, that intangible feeling of satisfaction becomes easier to understand. There's a certain sense of balance between efficiency and expertise that can only be delivered by a firm that is comfortable with who they are and what they are working toward. We think it's this time-honored approach that leads to the value of good counsel.