Firm Overview

Since 2001, Graft Law Offices, PLC has been dedicated to providing high-quality estate planning services to individuals and families throughout Northern Virginia. The firm's founder and principal attorney, Jon S. Graft, Esquire, remains focused on achieving an essential objective—creating and maintaining strategic estate plans that work. Combining his strong academic background, including a Juris Doctor, Accounting degree, and Master of Laws of Taxation, with his extensive experience, Jon Graft is able to develop highly effective, and successful estate planning strategies. Further, Mr. Graft is a Contributing Veteran Member of the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys, a nationwide group of independent estate planning attorneys dedicated to combining the experience of hundreds of attorneys nationally to create and maintain the best plans in the country.

Notably, Jon Graft employs a unique "TrustWorks Estate Planning Process", which is centered on achieving results, not simply on filling out documents. The unique process follows the guiding principle that the key to proper estate planning is clear, comprehensive, and customized instructions for your own care and that of your loved ones. These instructions can be conveyed using a number of tools, including wills, trusts, and other related documents.

The "TrustWorks Estate Planning Process" consists of a three-step approach, beginning with: Develop Your Plan With Counselling Oriented Planning Partners. The unfortunate fact is that what often passes for estate planning in this country is little more than word processing. A document oriented attorney will simply fill in the blanks on a pre-existing form while providing very little advice and very little analysis of a client's unique situation. Jon Graft believes you shouldn't pay licensed professionals to conduct word processing, but rather for their counsel and advice. Consequently, Step One starts the process off correctly by relying on Jon Graft's knowledge, wisdom, and experience to guide you, to thoroughly review your unique goals and desires, and then coordinate with other professionals, including your financial advisor and accountant.

Step Two of the process is: Commit Yourself and Your Family to a Continuing Maintenance and Education Program. An estate plan should be dynamic and reflective of the constant changes in your personal, family, and financial situation. In addition, there is constant change in both tax law and non-tax law that impacts your estate plan. Further, your attorney's experience and expertise are constantly changing through ongoing education and collected experience. Consequently, a good estate plan must be continually updated to accomplish what it was intended to accomplish. The costs of failing to update an estate plan are far greater than the costs of keeping your plan current.

Finally, Step Three is to: Secure Appropriate Assistance for You and Your Family to Transfer Your Wisdom Along With Your Wealth. Passing on your wealth to the next generation is a basic goal of the estate planning process. Passing your wealth along in an orderly and protected manner is distinctive from simply passing it on. Further, passing on your wisdom to the next generation is another thing entirely. A good estate plan will accomplish all three. Working closely with Jon Graft, your heirs will be able to receive their inheritance in a form that is protected from creditors and predators.

Additionally, Jon Graft employs a team approach to developing an estate plan. By involving all of your professional advisors, including your accountant, financial planners, and insurance agents, in the planning process, you are far more likely to have a plan that works. If not, you may receive conflicting advice that leads to confusion and inaction.

Ultimately, Graft Law Offices, PLC aspires to the highest ethical professional behavior that will lend dignity to the client, the planning professionals, and the planning process. We remain committed to developing high quality estate plans that meets clients' unique goals and keeps them in control of the process and the results.

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