Business Details
14 Years
experience
Your Trusted Estate Planning Partner in Boulder, CO
Hartney Law is an estate planning practice dedicated to helping Boulder, Colorado's adventurous and entrepreneurial families create comprehensive plans for an uncertain future. Our approach transforms traditional estate planning into an empowering experience by focusing on the whole person, not just financial assets. With over 13 years of experience, we specialize in crafting personalized plans that address legal custody for minors, wealth protection, and life's wisdom transfer.Our team provides clear explanations of complex concepts without legalese, ensuring clients fully understand their decisions. We operate on a flat-fee basis to eliminate billing surprises and offer complimentary 3-year reviews to maintain plan relevance as clients' lives evolve. Our practice combines legal expertise with compassionate guidance to help families stop worrying and start living with confidence.
Services
Estate Planning
Will Creation
Trust Formation
Business Succession Planning
Asset Protection
Guardianship Planning
Legal Document Review
Family Wealth Planning
Power of Attorney
Healthcare Directives
Details
- Year established: 2012
Highlights and features
- We offer an integral approach to estate planning that considers your entire family's needs
- Our team provides clear explanations of complex legal concepts without legalese
- We include complimentary 3-year estate planning reviews with every plan
- Our flat-fee pricing structure eliminates billing surprises
- We specialize in creating detailed custody plans for minor children
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Services
Estate Planning
Our comprehensive estate planning service creates customized strategies to protect your family, assets, and legacy. We help clients establish wills, trusts, and legal documents that ensure their wishes are honored. Our process includes three-year complimentary reviews to maintain plan relevance as life circumstances change.
Trust Formation
We specialize in creating tailored trust structures to safeguard assets and facilitate smooth wealth transfer. Our approach combines legal expertise with personalized guidance to ensure proper asset titling and protection strategies that adapt to evolving family needs and financial situations.
Guardianship Planning
Our child-focused guardianship planning ensures your minor children receive proper care according to your wishes. We help create detailed legal frameworks that address custody arrangements, financial provisions, and long-term care considerations to protect your family's future.
Business Succession
We develop strategic succession plans to protect business owners' legacies and ensure operational continuity. Our services include entity structuring, ownership transfer strategies, and tax-efficient planning to preserve business value across generations.
Legal Document Review
Our thorough document review service ensures all estate planning materials accurately reflect your intentions. We provide detailed explanations of legal documents and their implications, along with ongoing support to maintain document accuracy through life's changes.
People
Martha Hartney
Principal Attorney
Martha Hartney has practiced estate planning in Colorado for over thirteen years, specializing in connecting parents to meaningful planning processes that transform traditional legal work into family empowerment.
Gentry Schaab
Of Counsel Attorney
Gentry Schaab brings five years of transactional law experience to our team, specializing in business law and real estate while integrating psychological insights to address clients' emotional and financial needs.
Michele Heaphy
Legal Assistant
Michele Heaphy supports our practice with her extensive entrepreneurial background and organizational skills, providing critical assistance in document preparation and client communication processes.
Questions
What makes Hartney Law's estate planning approach different?
Our approach focuses on the whole person, not just financial assets, combining legal expertise with compassionate guidance to create personalized plans that evolve with your life.
How do you help protect minor children's futures?
We create detailed custody plans that ensure your children receive care according to your wishes, including legal frameworks for financial provisions and long-term care considerations.
What's included in the complimentary 3-year review?
The review ensures your estate plan remains current with life changes, legal updates, and evolving family dynamics to maintain its effectiveness over time.
How are your fees structured?
We use a transparent flat-fee pricing model that eliminates billing surprises and includes comprehensive support throughout the planning process.
Can you help with business succession planning?
Yes, we develop customized succession strategies to protect business assets and ensure operational continuity through ownership transfer and tax-efficient planning.
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