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Estate Planning Preparation Made Easy

How to Have Your Will, Power of Attorney and Health Care Proxy Prepared Without Leaving Your Home or Car

Easy Steps

For your safety, we are offering remote or drive-up no-contact document signing during the COVID-19 crisis. We are available by phone or email at any time to answer your questions. These are the easy steps to have your will, power of attorney and health care proxy/living will prepared:

  • Complete the Will Information Sheet (“WIS”) at https://www.wny-lawyers.com/will-intake-form/ or call 716.542.5444 and request that the WIS be mailed to you.
  • Return the WIS to us either electronically via online form, by scanned email, fax 7165424090 or by mail to POB 31, Akron, NY 14001.
  • When we receive your WIS, we will call you or email you to schedule an initial telephone conference.
  • During the telephone conference, we will advise you when the  documents will be mailed to you and the total fees which can be paid by check or any credit card at WNY-Lawyers.com.

Estate Planning Procedure Using Video Chat

Will Signing Procedure Using Video Chat

Remote signing by Facetime, Skype, or other teleconferencing service.

A. You must affirmatively represent that you are physically situated in the State of New York.

B. You must transmit by fax or electronic means a legible copy of the signed document directly to us on the same date you signed it.

C. Mail the signed documents to our Akron office within seven days.

D. We will mail a copy of your will and the original notarized power of attorney and health care proxy to you.

Remote no-contact signing in your car if you do not have access to Skype, Facetime, or other teleconferencing service:

A. Drive to one of our offices at the appointment time and stay in your car.
For an additional charge, we can drive to your home.

B. Call our cell phone number and we will drive or walk up alongside your car.

C. We will speak via cell phones and observe the signing through the car windows.

D. Deposit the documents in our mailbox.

E. We will mail a copy of your will and the original notarized power if attorney and health care proxy to you.

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Robert Friedman, Esq.

Partner/Attorney Hamline University School of Law, New York State Bar, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

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