I have a revocable legal trust that was created in Arizona. I have since moved to Columbus, Ga and have updated these documents to show my current location and also upated the docs to change the successor trustees and beneficiaries. I need to have these reviewed to make sure they comply with Georgia law and also have them witnessed and nortarized. I would like to keep the cost to a minimum for this service. The documents I have are 1. Restatement of the trust; 2. Advance Directive. 3 Pour over will. 4. Asssignment of personal effects to the trust.and 5. Financial Power of Attorney
You may find an attorney who is willing to review and help you sign documents that the attorney didn't prepare, but honestly you will likely not be well-served by that course of action. In order to review a Will and revocable trust, for example, any attorney at my firm would need to read the document in depth, in addition to meeting with you to understand your situation, your wishes, and what you are trying to accomplish in the documents, in order to ensure that the documents are adequate or to know what changes should be recommended. That kind of work is generally hourly rate work, and a thorough review and consultation takes a lot of time. You would likely be better off just having new documents prepared (an amended and restated revocable trust), especially if you find an attorney who does estate planning work on a fixed fee basis. In my firm, we always review existing documents as part of an estate planning consultation, and if the underlying documents really are pretty good, then sometimes we can help with the few changes needed. But it is almost never the most cost-effective way to do it, because there's so much from-scratch work and we can't give you a flat fee because we don't know how long it will take.
If you really are set on doing this yourself and just finding an attorney who will review the documents you prepared and help you sign them, this is not the correct forum. You will need to look up attorneys in whatever area you want to work in, and then call or e-mail each attorney's office directly to see whether or not they will perform this kind of work and how they will charge for it. Again, you may find one. But it likely won't be inexpensive.
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