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Websites for estate planning and probate attorneys.

People put off estate planning for years. When they finally search, they want to know what it costs, how long it takes, and that the first meeting will not be awkward.

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Halvorsen Law: Estate planning page on a desktop

What your clients want to know

Questions they type before they call.

  • What does a will or a trust cost?
  • Do I need a trust, or is a will enough?
  • What should I bring to the first meeting?
  • How does probate work in Cook County?
  • Can you help with a parent who is already unwell?

What your site includes.

An estate planning and probate website from Settled Sites is a complete site built around the questions your clients ask before they call. It comes with the pages below, the Illinois rules for your practice checked, and every later change made for you by email, for $299 a month with no setup fee.

  • Packages with flat fees, if you offer them: will, trust, powers of attorney
  • A "your first meeting" page with what to bring and how long it takes
  • Probate and trust administration, written for a grieving family, not for another lawyer
  • Powers of attorney for property and for health care
  • Guardianship, if you handle it

Two audiences, one site.

Planning clients are usually calm and comparing firms. Probate clients have just lost someone and need help this week. Your site gives them different routes from the homepage, so neither has to read through the other's pages.

The Illinois rules for your practice.

Estate planning sites tend to drift into fear ("Do not let the state decide!"). Illinois Rule 7.1 does not ban persuasion, but claims must not be misleading, and a calm, factual tone builds more trust with this client anyway. Testimonials are allowed in Illinois, but a client's estate plan is confidential, so your site only quotes clients who have agreed in writing.

We are web designers, not lawyers, and this is not legal advice. You approve every page before it goes live.

Questions from estate planning and probate attorneys.

Do we need a separate page for each document?

Usually one page for planning packages and one each for probate, trust administration and guardianship is enough. More pages only help when each one answers a different question.