A LAW PRACTICE FOCUSED ON ESTATE PLANNING, BUSINESS PLANNING, PROBATE AND TRUST ADMINISTRATION

Whether one is concerned with planning or administrating an estate, or starting and operating a closely-held business, the legal issues involved are often very complicated and in-depth. Regardless of how overwhelming the required courses of action may seem, Attorney Raymond A. Colla, Jr. is here to help you and your family by providing sound counsel, expert guidance and sage advice regarding all of the legal issues, processes and steps along the way.

 Ray is, above all else:

• A compassionate counselor – Ray endeavors to relieve his clients’ stresses and worries as he addresses their family and business concerns.

• An innovative thinker – Ray’s legal experience, combined with his own business experience, has given him insight into estate planning and business law that he applies in creating thorough strategies designed to address his clients’ estate planning, probate and business needs and concerns.

• Eager to work one-on-one with you – Ray understands and believes that it is essential to personally sit down and meet with his clients and, through active listening, determine their exact needs, desires and concerns, and mutually work with them to effectuate a plan that thoroughly addresses and achieves all of their goals.

• An ethical practitioner - in representing his clients, he holds himself to the highest ethical standards, and practices with the utmost level of professionalism.

Ray represents his clients in the following major, focused practice areas:

• Estate Planning - Ray prepares wills, trusts (both revocable "living" trusts and various irrevocable, tax-driven trusts), powers of attorney, living wills, and health care directives, as well as engages in complex estate and gift tax planning, designing innovative means to accomplish his clients' estate and tax planning objectives.

• Business Planning - Ray represents closely-held business owners with respect to all aspects of business formation and start-up (including tax and non-tax considerations regarding choice of entity decisions), business expansion and financing, purchases of existing businesses, business succession planning to future generations, and sales of businesses to existing management and other new owners.

• Probate/Estate Administration - Ray represents decedents' estate representatives (executors and administrators) in all aspects of the complicated probate and estate administration process, including the preparation and filing of all required probate documents, as well as all requisite federal and state estate tax returns.

• Trust Administration - Ray represents both trustees and beneficiaries of trusts in the the often complex and trying trust administration process, including with respect to a trustee’s duties and responsibilities in serving in that role, as well as the beneficiaries’ rights under the terms of the trust document.

Across these focused areas of practice, Ray endeavors at all times to ease the stress and concerns of his clients and assist them in focusing objectively on effective, beneficial solutions to the legal issues they are facing.

“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”

– Edmund Burke