Build Your Legacy Now: A Practical Guide to Estate Planning - Softcover

Bates, William Blinn

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798240970801

Publisher: William Blinn Bates, Jr., 2026

Synopsis

Build Your Legacy Now: A Practical Guide to Estate Planning demystifies the estate planning process for individuals and families who aren't certain how to begin. Author and attorney William Blinn Bates, Jr., draws on his firm's multi-generational estate planning expertise to address the indecision that prevents many people from undertaking estate planning when the time is right to do so. The book breaks down the differences between wills and trusts and highlights the importance of a structured approach to estate planning that accounts for asset ownership, estate taxes, and the unique considerations each client faces. Build Your Legacy Now underscores that estate planning cannot wait. Guided by the information in this book, readers will be ready to make an appointment with an attorney who can help them take action now so their wishes will be carried out as intended later.

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About the Author

William Blinn Bates, Jr. ("Blinn"), is a shareholder and managing partner at Woods & Bates, P.C., in Lincoln, Illinois. Upon graduation from law school in 2007, Blinn returned to his hometown of Lincoln and commenced his practice of law. The firm concentrates their work on estate planning, including drafting of trusts and wills, estate administration, and real estate matters. Blinn received his Juris Doctor from Drake University Law School with honors in 2007. He is a member of the Illinois and Logan County Bar Associations and is a past president of the Logan County Bar Association. He is active in local civic, charity, and educational affairs and currently serves on the District #27 School Board and the Woods Foundation Board.Blinn is a third-generation attorney at Woods & Bates, P.C. His grandfather, William C. Bates, Jr., was one of the firm's founding members and was succeeded by Blinn's father, William B. Bates. The firm now has offices in Delavan, Illinois, and Petersburg, Illinois, in addition to the main office in Lincoln, Illinois.Blinn resides in his childhood home in Lincoln, Illinois, with his wife, two children, and two dogs.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Blinn Bates, Jr.
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798240970801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 54