Estate Planning

Traditional Families

I provide wills, including simple wills and wills with trust provisions for children; powers of attorney, both general and for health care decisions.

Non-Traditional Families

Because gay and lesbian couples cannot legally marry, they do not automatically enjoy the protections that marriage provides. It is important for couples to create those protections through establishment of documents such as Powers of Attorney and Wills. Through Powers of Attorney, a couple authorizes his or her partner to act as agent, for medical and/or financial decisions, in the event of incapacity, and to have access to the incapacitated partner, which would otherwise be refused.

By executing Wills, the couple can ensure the estate of each, or a designated portion of the estate, is left to the other partner. If the couple has children, they also designate the trustee and guardian who would care for their children, in the event of the death of both partners.

Barbara Lavender, PC
Attorney at Law
595 Canyon Boulevard
Boulder, CO 80302
Phone: 303-443-3326
Fax: 303-443-0560

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My practice includes the full range of family law services, including prenuptial and antenuptial agreements, all aspects of divorce, allocation of parental responsibilities (formerly known as custody), step-parent adoptions, grandparent rights, and estate planning. I also provide family law and estate planning services to gays and lesbians, including parental rights (for couples residing anywhere in Colorado), allocation of parental rights, sperm donor agreements, surrogacy agreements, gay and lesbian "divorce," domestic partnership agreements, wills, trusts, and powers of attorney.