Quad Cities, Iowa and Illinois
Estate planning and elder law
Wills, trusts, probate, Medicaid planning and guardianship for Quad Cities families: the parent getting affairs in order, and the grown children helping. One firm, an office in Davenport and an office in Moline.
The first meeting is free. If you hire us, we quote the fee in writing before any work starts; court filing, recording and appraisal costs are separate and paid by you.
Practice areas
Most families come to us with one of four questions. Each page says what we do, what it costs to begin and what you’ll need to bring.
A will or a living trust, powers of attorney and a health care directive, signed in one visit.
Wills and trusts
When a parent has died: the court filings, the accounts, the house and the final tax return.
Probate and estates
Planning ahead for long-term care, or applying when a parent already needs it.
Medicaid and nursing careThe firm
Half our clients live in Iowa and half in Illinois, and plenty have a parent on the other bank.
Hilde Vercruysse opened the Moline office to draw up plans for families in Rock Island County. Ruben Albrecht joined from Davenport, and the two offices have worked as one firm since. All three of our attorneys are admitted in both states, so a mother in East Moline and a son in Bettendorf can sit at the same table and leave with one plan.
How it works
Most plans take three to five weeks from the first meeting to the signing.
Tell us who the plan is for. We’ll book an hour at the office nearer you, on a weekday or a Saturday morning.
Bring a list of what you own and who you’d want in charge. We’ll say what we’d draft and what it costs.
We mail or email the drafts with a plain summary on top. Change anything you like.
We supply the witnesses and the notary, at an office or at a parent’s bedside.
Offices
Both offices are step-free, with parking close by. Saturday mornings are by appointment.
Free parking in the lot on Perry Street.
Directions to the Davenport, Iowa officeStreet parking on Fifth Avenue and a ramp on 16th Street.
Directions to the Moline, Illinois officeFrom clients
“My brother lives in Chicago and I’m in Bettendorf. Hilde got both of us on one call, then met Mom at her apartment in Moline to sign. Nobody had to take a day off.”
“Ruben went through Dad’s accounts with us one by one and told us which needed probate and which didn’t. We’d been dreading it for months.”
“A Saturday appointment was the only way we could both be there. We left with drafts in the mail by Wednesday.”
Shared with permission. Every family’s estate is different, and what we did for one family doesn’t promise the same for yours.
Questions
Whichever is easier for your parent to reach. Our attorneys are admitted in both states and the two offices share one file, so you can meet in Moline and sign in Davenport if that suits you.
Yes, for the first call. To draft anything we need to meet your parent, usually alone for part of the meeting, so we know the plan is theirs.
An hour with an attorney to go over the family, the property and what worries you. You leave knowing what we’d draft and the fee, in writing.
Yes, from 9am to noon at both offices, by appointment. Signings and first meetings both.
Book the free consultation at either office, on a weekday or a Saturday morning.
