SCOPE OF ENGAGEMENT
EVERYONE needs certain important legal documents to protect their family and their assets. Affordable Legal Documents has revolutionized and refined the document preparation process. Now these universally critical documents are available to everyone at an affordable price without sacrificing quality. All our documents are still reviewed by attorneys with specialized knowledge and experience in the appropriate areas of the law.
Affordable Legal Documents has streamlined the document preparation process in order to make certain essential documents affordable and understandable to the broad population, not just the more affluent. Even if someone follows the traditional path by directly employing an attorney, these critical documents are still, for the most part, “cookie cutter” documents that are produced on a word processor by a legal assistant.
One way Affordable Legal Documents is able to bring the cost of these critical documents down so low is to eliminate most of the expensive attorney-time along with the fancy office and overhead. You also take a more active roll in the process. First you self-educate with the support of the extensive Library available on www.affordable-legal-documents.com and seminars presented online and live. Next, instead of having a lengthy live interview with an expensive attorney, you go online to www.affordable-legal-documents.com and complete the Document Data Form by entering your pertinent data yourself in a secure online user-friendly format.
Your information is first delivered to one of our experienced legal documents drafters who prepare your “DRAFT” documents which are emailed to you for your review. You are expected to read and proof them and note any changes, corrections or questions.
Here is the first unique way in which Affordable Legal Documents distinguishes itself from all our competitors – you get a live professional coach to help you through and answer your questions. One of our knowledgeable staff will call you to go over your questions. You can ask them about anything you don’t understand or that is bothering you. We also want to be sure that we clearly understand your desires and that your documents will do what you want them to do.
Once we have made any changes or corrections resulting from the telephone interview, we then prepare and send you your “FINAL” documents for signing. Again, www.affordable-legal-documents.com is a great resource to coach you on an ongoing basis so you implement and maintain your plan correctly.
At the same time your final documents are sent to you, they are also sent to one of the experienced estate planning attorneys working with Affordable Legal Documents on an independent contractor basis for legal review. There are rarely any changes, but if the attorney makes any recommends we notify you, revise your documents and send you the update versions.
Affordable Legal Documents does not leave alone to implement your documents. If you cannot get the help you need on www.affordable-legal-documents.com you may engage one of our professional coaches by phone or in person. There may be additional fees but it is critical that everything be done correctly the first time and each time thereafter.
The following is a list of the documents included in each Documents Package and the estimated price:
Trust & Estate Documents Package ($395.00):
1@ Revocable Living Trust
2@ Last Wills and Testaments (1@ for singles)
2@ Health Care Powers of Attorney (1@ for singles)
2@ Durable General Powers of Attorney (1@ for singles)
2@ Medical Directives to Physicians and Providers of Health Care (Living Wills) (1@ for singles)
Instructions for executing your documents
A handsome binder with tabs to help you stay organized
Limited Liability Company Documents Package ($200-$300):
1@ Articles of Organization
1@ Operating Agreement
1@ Form SS-4 for obtaining a Federal Tax ID Number, if necessary
Instructions for executing your documents
A handsome binder with tabs to help you stay organized
The estimated cost noted above is only a good-faith estimate and may vary based on and number of factors such as the complexity of the documents, the time needed to consult with you to gather the necessary information, understand your objectives, answer questions, and make your requested changes. Additional documents may be needed to implement you plan, i.e. two trusts for husband and wife with separate property. It may also take additional time if any special drafting is necessary.
Affordable Legal Documents will always triage each documents case. If we feel that our documents may not be suitable to meet your needs, we will help you through the process by referring you to a specialized attorney and work with you to implement your documents and plan.
LEGAL DISCLOSURES
NON-TRADITIONAL ATTORNEY/CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
Affordable Legal Documents’ approach to this important and universal work is revolutionary and represents a dramatic improvement over the traditional approach to delivering legal services. Consequently, our reviewing attorneys want you to clearly understand their role as expressed in the following disclosure:
“The first purpose for the attorney review is to determine if the documents comply with and will likely be effective under the applicable laws of the your State. The second purpose for the attorney review of your documents is to determine if they are likely to meet your needs as represented by Affordable Legal Documents and that they contain the necessary provision to implement your desires.
Legal Disclaimer: This legal review is a departure from the traditional attorney/client relationship. Therefore the maker of the documents expressly understands that the reviewing attorney has (1) not interviewed you in person, (2) not determined your competency to execute these documents, (3) not supervised their execution, and (4) not assisted in the funding of the trust as he normally might do.
If Affordable Legal Documents is representing both a husband and wife or a not-traditional couple in the preparation of their documents then you will need to understand one of the following Consents to Joint Representation:
CONSENT TO JOINT REPRESENTATION
MARRIED COUPLE
As husband and wife, we acknowledge that we have retained Affordable Legal Documents LLC in connection with the preparation of certain legal documents that we have requested. We acknowledge that we have each been advised of potential adverse interests that we have in relationship to one another in connection with these documents. It has been pointed out to each of us that under ideal circumstances it would be preferable for each of us to be represented by separate counsel in connection with our estate planning and other documents we request to be prepared. However, while acknowledging the potential conflicts and adverse interests, we believe that it is in the best interest of preserving harmony and mutual trust not to be represented by separate counsel and we desire that Affordable Legal Documents LLC work with us to achieve the mutual financial planning goals which we have in mind. We each specifically request and consent that Affordable Legal Documents LLC, its individual employees, and contracted providers thereof function in this capacity in spite of the fact that the result may be that one or both of us will sacrifice rights or assets that we might be counseled against sacrificing if we were represented by separate counsel.
We also each acknowledge that the employees and contracted provided of Affordable Legal Documents LLC will endeavor to keep in strict confidence, as to third parties, everything that either of us reveals to them. However, each of us hereby authorizes and directs Affordable Legal Documents LLC, its employees, and contracted providers to tell the other anything which either of us reveals to an them with respect to, or which could have an effect upon, the documents, even information revealed by one of us outside the presence of the other. In the event either of us creates a situation where Affordable Legal Documents LLC is unable, in good faith, to comply with the preceding directive, without substantial risk of causing an immediate relationship crisis, Affordable Legal Documents LLC may, at its option and in lieu of revealing information of which it has become aware, simply notify both of us in writing that Affordable Legal Documents LLC is withdrawing from further representation of either of us and advises both of us that we may wish to seek separate counsel with respect to these documents.
We further each acknowledge that we have been advised that if at any time we become uncomfortable with suggestions that are being made or actions that are being taken, or we decide that we wish to have our respective individual rights protected, we may notify Affordable Legal Documents LLC in writing at which time Affordable Legal Documents LLC will immediately cease its joint representation.
CONSENT TO JOINT REPRESENTATION
UNMARRIED COUPLE
As unmarried domestic partners, we acknowledge that we have retained Affordable Legal Documents LLC in connection with the preparation of certain legal documents that we have requested. We acknowledge that we have each been advised of potential adverse interests that we have in relationship to one another in connection with these documents. It has been pointed out to each of us that under ideal circumstances it would be preferable for each of us to be represented by separate counsel in connection with our estate planning and other documents we request to be prepared. However, while acknowledging the potential conflicts and adverse interests, we believe that it is in the best interest of preserving harmony and mutual trust not to be represented by separate counsel and we desire that Affordable Legal Documents LLC work with us to achieve the mutual financial planning goals which we have in mind. We each specifically request and consent that Affordable Legal Documents LLC, its individual employees, and contracted providers thereof function in this capacity in spite of the fact that the result may be that one or both of us will sacrifice rights or assets that we might be counseled against sacrificing if we were represented by separate counsel.
We also each acknowledge that the employees and contracted provided of Affordable Legal Documents LLC will endeavor to keep in strict confidence, as to third parties, everything that either of us reveals to them. However, each of us hereby authorizes and directs Affordable Legal Documents LLC, its employees, and contracted providers to tell the other anything which either of us reveals to an them with respect to, or which could have an effect upon, the documents, even information revealed by one of us outside the presence of the other. In the event either of us creates a situation where Affordable Legal Documents LLC is unable, in good faith, to comply with the preceding directive, without substantial risk of causing an immediate relationship crisis, Affordable Legal Documents LLC may, at its option and in lieu of revealing information of which it has become aware, simply notify both of us in writing that Affordable Legal Documents LLC is withdrawing from further representation of either of us and advises both of us that we may wish to seek separate counsel with respect to these documents.
We further each acknowledge that we have been advised that if at any time we become uncomfortable with suggestions that are being made or actions that are being taken, or we decide that we wish to have our respective individual rights protected, we may notify Affordable Legal Documents LLC in writing at which time Affordable Legal Documents LLC will immediately cease its joint representation.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you desire further clarification of any of the above information, please contact Affordable Legal Documents LLC by email at info@affordable-legal-documents.com, call 801-947-8844, or write to 5445 South Highland Drive, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84117
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