• We help clients cope with generational transition issues such as how to involve the children in an estate planning process.

• We assist executors with a wide variety of estate settlement issues.

• We provide a broad range of mediation services around issues such as elder care transitions, heir disputes, business continuation decisions, divorce, or helping manage the distribution of a decedent's personal property.

• We can serve as trustee for a minor or incompetent and respectfully serve the wishes of family members.

For more information about the effectiveness of mediation in the family setting read "Tipping Points - Reasons Why Mediation Works in Complex Family Disputes" by Managing Partner, Rikk Larsen.

A couple in their seventies came to a Howell Larsen mediator to discuss a major life change - getting divorced. It quickly became apparent to the mediator that their desire to get divorced was really a cry for help. They had a bunch of interrelated family issues that were so emotionally intertwined that no movement seemed possible. The husband was upset because he was unable to write a will or do estate planning while the wife was fighting with two of their kids. The wife focused her anxieties about aging and her relationship with her kids on the couples' joint decision about leaving their large marital home, now mostly empty. The tension was so high that they couldn't decide anything. The mediator successfully unbundled the problems so that the family lawyer, financial planner and CPA could begin to effectively work together to "rationally" plan the family's future.

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