Kevin D Klagge

This work is personal for me.

My grandfather was a decorated World War II veteran and a civil engineer. He worked his whole life to support his family and to buy the home they grew up in. When he had a stroke, the ambulance didn’t take him to the VA hospital, where the care he had earned through his service would have been covered. The cost of the care that followed slowly used up everything he had saved, and after he died the state moved to recover what Medicaid had paid. Within months, the home and savings he had built over a lifetime were gone.

He had spent his life providing for his family. But no one ever showed him how to protect it.

I became an attorney to protect what matters most. After beginning my career as a prosecutor, I built my practice in estate planning and asset protection, so that other families wouldn’t have to learn that lesson the way mine did. I help my clients put wills, trusts, and asset protection plans in place that keep their property and businesses out of the hands of the courts, creditors, and unnecessary taxation.

Most estate plans are written by attorneys who have never had to defend one in court. For more than fifteen years, I have also litigated poorly drafted documents in court, including probate and trust litigation. I’ve seen how a single ambiguous clause can set off a will contest, how loose trust language invites a challenge, and how a poorly handled transfer gets unwound by a creditor. Because I know how these plans get attacked, I write yours to hold up, and in many cases to keep your family out of court in the first place.