Estate planning and family law in New Haven, Connecticut
Careful plans for your family. Steady counsel when it changes.
Johns & Mathews Legal practices estate planning and family law. Prepare your estate plan from home in our client portal, and an attorney reviews every document with you before you sign.
Estate plans are prepared for a flat fee, quoted before any work begins and set out in your engagement letter.
I.
Start online or call us
Open your plan in the client portal, or book a consultation first. Either way, an attorney is assigned to you.
II.
Prepare at home
The guided workbook asks one question at a time and saves as you go. Your draft documents build themselves from your answers.
III.
Attorney review
When you're ready, send your plan to your attorney. They review every answer and draft, and call you with any questions.
IV.
Sign at our office
We schedule a signing appointment. Witnesses and a notary are provided, and you leave with your plan signed and in place.
Nothing you prepare is final until your attorney has reviewed it with you, and you sign at our office with witnesses and a notary.
We keep a scanned copy of your signed documents and return the originals to you, or hold the original will in our vault if you prefer.
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Client Portal
Your plan, prepared at home and reviewed by your attorney
The portal's workbook asks one plain question at a time, saves as you go, and works on a phone. Your draft documents
build themselves from your answers. Nothing is final until your attorney has reviewed it with you and you've signed
at our office.
Level I
Who speaks for you, and who keeps the bills paid, if you can't
Health Care Proxy (Medical POA) · Living Will / Advance Directive · HIPAA Release · Durable Financial Power of Attorney
Level II
Your will, your accounts, and the people who agreed to help
Last Will & Testament · Beneficiary Designation Review · Bank Account POD Guide
Level IIIOptional
Your home, and the instructions that make everything easier to find
Transfer-on-Death (TOD) Deed · Beneficiary Audit Checklist · Letter of Instruction
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Where we practice
Greater New Haven and the Connecticut shoreline
Clients come to us from across Greater New Haven and the Connecticut shoreline. Consultations are at our office or by video. Estate plans are
prepared at home in the portal and signed at our office.
Our attorneys are admitted to practice in Connecticut.
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Connecticut, by S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846 Image: Samuel Augustus Mitchell (publisher), J. Knight (engraver), Public domain
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New Haven Green, showing three churches. Postcard by Tichnor Brothers, mid-20th century Image: Tichnor Brothers, Publisher, Public domain
Visit or call
Our office in New Haven
245 Orange Street, Suite 300 New Haven, CT 06510
Two blocks from the New Haven Green. Metered street parking on Orange Street; the Temple Street garage is a five-minute walk. The building has an elevator and step-free entrance.
