Practice Overview

Virginia Estate Planning Lawyer Rod K. Sutherland
Custom Made Estate Plans

Nothing offers peace of mind like a well-made estate plan. What will happen to your family, your business and your assets in the event of your incapacity or your death?

Virginia Beach estate planning attorney Rod Sutherland  is experienced in helping people plan for the future. He’d like to help you, too. Please contact him for a free initial consultation.

Rod understands that each person and each family have different estate planning needs. He doesn’t just write wills and trusts from “boiler plate” forms. He creates custom estate plans designed specifically for his clients. He will discuss your priorities with you, review your assets, and suggest options to meet your needs.

His individualized service includes the estate planning tools noted below: 

• business succession planning
• revocable living trusts
• wills
• powers of attorney
• living wills
• medical powers of attorney
• advance medical directive
• life insurance trusts
• charitable trusts
• special needs trusts 
• asset protection 
• tax planning
• business succession planning 
• family business entities
• trust administration
• probate

Estate planning is about much more than money and property. It is about people – spouses, children, grandchildren, favorite family members, and close friends.

Estate planning is about your family’s security and prosperity.

Estate planning is about minimizing taxes and remembering your favorite charity.

Estate planning requires a “better safe than sorry” thoroughness. Trying to foresee the future when structuring an estate plan is as difficult as trying to predict the weather years in advance. To establish “better safe than sorry” thoroughness – a just in case protection – requires an estate plan that comprehensively addresses future possibilities. For the attorney, this is an exercise of common sense and realism. For the client, it is an exercise of love and concern.

Rod works closely with you and your financial advisors (such as your accountant, life insurance agent, and financial planner) to coordinate your objectives and your assets with your estate plan.

The law firm of Rod K. Sutherland provides individualized estate planning services to clients throughout Virginia, including the cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Hampton and Newport News. His office is conveniently located near the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Viking Drive.

Rod K. Sutherland Attorney at Law
Oceana Center One
484 Viking Drive, Suite 120
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
(Near the intersection of Lynnhaven Parkway and Viking Drive)
Phone: (757) 468-7777
Fax: (757) 468-7002
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