Theresa Elizabeth Dowell

My husband and I wanted simple Wills similar to our original Wills. We hired Theresa to guide us in updating our Wills without a lot of trusts. She recommended a Disclaimer Credit Shelter Trust which she set up. Besides our Wills, we each had a Health Directive drawn up as well as Durable Powers of ...Attorney. When we were ready, Theresa sent us instruction sheets to follow to make sure we had our Wills (initialed on each page) and Health Care Directives witnessed and our Durable Powers of Attorney notarized. Throughout our process with Theresa she answered all our questions. A final finishing touch was when Theresa asked that we copy all the “signature pages” to make sure all the paperwork was, in the case of Wills and Health Care Directives, signatures witnessed and in the case of Durable Powers of Attorney, notarized, then all the sheets emailed to Theresa. She let us know that everything was good to go.

Contacted Theresa for help re: a home purchase. We were first time home buyers who were almost sucked into a horrible and huge legal headache. The sellers were trying to be very coy about claiming land that they were clearly trespassing on. The made it sound like obtaining it from the neighbor wa...s going to be super easy - as first time home buyers, we believed them. Theresa worked so fast to get us out of this mess. She was direct with her statements, and was very clear and upfront about the potential risks. She did a great job setting expectations on what she could and could not do, and gave advice on how we could handle ourselves if. When we approached the sellers with all of the information that Theresa presented and explained to us, they let us out of the contract and returned our earnest money within two hours. We are so grateful for her patience and the skillsets she brought to the table. We will be using her for every real-estate purchase moving forward.

Theresa provided us a will for a situation that had moderate wealth as well as interesting family situations. Her help was both useful in the design of the will, as well as advice and how to approach certain challenges in our situation. This is the key of what we look for from an experienced lawyer ...- how the law intersects with real life situations. Theresa did great work, quickly, and was able to answer our questions.