Where Estate Plans Fail
The plans that fail are the ones that never matched the client’s actual assets.
Most estate plans don’t fail in the drafting. They fail in the gap between the documents and the client’s life: a trust that was never funded, a retirement account still naming an ex-spouse, a house titled in one name, a healthcare directive nobody can find. The information to catch it is usually already in the file. It just has to be read against everything else.
Start From What the Client Already Has
Saxon reads the intake questionnaire alongside the existing wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives, and lays out who is named, in what role, and where the documents conflict with each other or with what the client just told you.
Make the Plan Match the Assets
Saxon builds a cited asset schedule from deeds, statements, and beneficiary designation forms, showing how each asset is titled and who receives it. Your team sees what passes under the plan, what passes outside it, and the values and ownership facts your attorneys weigh in tax-aware planning.
What Makes This Repeatable: Playbooks
Playbooks turn your firm’s best estate planning habits into the default process: the intake review your senior attorney would run, the beneficiary cross-check, the funding checklist that follows every trust signing. A simple will and a layered trust plan get the same disciplined review, every time.
One Client Plan, Start to Finish
Review what exists, map every asset and designation, draft in your templates, confirm the trust is actually funded, and revisit the plan when a marriage, birth, death, divorce, or move changes the facts. One cited record carries the client from the first questionnaire through every later update.