What does forty years of work actually buy you in Washington State?
A home your children grew up in. A rental property that supplemented your retirement. A small business built on early mornings and late nights. The kind of quiet wealth that was never flashy but was always real and was always yours to pass down.
Year after year the legislature has been changing that. Washington's estate tax carries one of the lowest exemption thresholds in the entire country. A threshold so low that the family home, the retirement account, and the small business your parents spent a lifetime building can push an ordinary middle class family into a tax that was sold to voters as a burden for billionaires. And if you happen to own a rental property the rules governing what you can do with it, who you can ask to leave, and how long you have to wait have become so onerous that the mom and pop landlord who saved up for one investment property is now playing by the same rules as a corporate developer with a legal department on retainer.
These laws were not written for the wealthy. The wealthy have attorneys who find every available protection in the code before the ink is dry. These laws land on the people who never saw them coming.
So which side of this do you want to be on? Navigating it alone and hoping for the best? Or working with a firm that knows exactly where the protections are and fights to make sure your family keeps what you earned?
Our mission is to stand in the corner of the ordinary Washington family. The homeowner. The small landlord. The parent who wants to leave something behind. We handle estate planning and probate, real estate transactions, and housing law and we handle it with one purpose in mind — making sure the complexity the legislature keeps adding to these areas of law works for you and not against you.
Real attorneys. Real conversations. The law working for the people who built this state.
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