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MarysvilleEstate Planning & Probate

Hal Whitaker

Attorney at Whitaker Law, LLC

Wills, trusts and farm succession plans your kids will thank you for.

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About Hal

I have practiced law in Marysville since 1993. For most of that time I have done one thing: help families decide what happens to what they've built.

That usually means wills, trusts, powers of attorney and health-care directives. With farm families and business owners, it also means the harder conversation about which child takes over the operation and how to be fair to the ones who don't. I have seen what happens when nobody plans. I have sat in probate court with siblings who stopped speaking over forty acres.

I hold free estate planning workshops at the county library a few times a year and try to keep the legal jargon to a minimum. My wife says I haven't managed that yet.

What members say about Hal

2 testimonials

Our wills were signed in 2002, when our youngest was still in diapers and the shop didn't exist. Hal redid everything in two meetings, including a plan for who takes over the garage, and he explained it without once making me feel slow.

Dwayne Hollis Hollis Auto Care

I sold 62 acres near Milford Center for a family whose parents had died with wills from 1988. Hal cleaned up the probate, then sat the four siblings down and got them to agree on a split, which I'd have bet against.

Luke Brandt Brandt Land & Home

Recent moves

Hal Whitaker wrote a testimonial for Donna Maynard

My doctor told me to get some exercise, and I told him I'd think about it. My wife signed me up with Donna instead. Five months in, I carry the groceries in one trip and my…

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Dwayne Hollis wrote a testimonial for Hal Whitaker

Our wills were signed in 2002, when our youngest was still in diapers and the shop didn't exist. Hal redid everything in two meetings, including a plan for who takes over the…

TestimonialMarysville

Luke Brandt wrote a testimonial for Hal Whitaker

I sold 62 acres near Milford Center for a family whose parents had died with wills from 1988. Hal cleaned up the probate, then sat the four siblings down and got them to agree on…

TestimonialMarysvillePlain City

Hal Whitaker wrote a testimonial for Dave Pruitt

Estate sales of farmland come with old easements and 1940s deeds that never quite match the survey. Dave found a pipeline easement nobody in the family knew about and resolved it…

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