estate planning
Your life is personal. Your estate plan should be too.
Estate planning is about more than deciding what happens to your property someday. It’s about choosing who you trust, planning for the unexpected, protecting the people who matter to you, and putting your wishes in writing.

planning for more than what you own
An estate plan answers some of life’s most important “what if” questions.
Whether you’re creating your first estate plan or revisiting one that no longer fits your life, we’ll start with your circumstances and goals. From there, we can determine which planning tools make sense for you—and which ones don’t.
Who should be able to make decisions for you if you can’t? Who should receive what you’ve built? Who would you trust to care for the people who depend on you? And how can you make things clearer for the people you love when they may already be navigating a difficult time?
A thoughtful estate plan brings those decisions together. Depending on your circumstances, your plan may include several different tools working together to protect you during your lifetime and carry out your wishes after your death.
Wills & Foundational Planning
A will can direct how your property should pass, name the person you want to handle your estate, and address important decisions involving minor children. We’ll build the foundational pieces of your plan around the people and priorities that matter to you.
Trust-Based Planning
A trust can offer additional control over how assets are managed and distributed and may help address goals that a will alone cannot. We’ll determine whether trust-based planning makes sense for your circumstances rather than assuming everyone needs one.
Incapacity Planning
Your estate plan should also protect you during your lifetime. Powers of attorney and health care planning allow you to choose who can step in to handle financial or medical decisions if you’re unable to make them yourself.
Plan Reviews & Updates
A plan that made sense years ago may not fit your life today. Changes in your family, assets, relationships, or goals can all be reasons to revisit existing documents and determine what should stay, change, or be replaced.
Estate planning for real life
Your plan should make sense for the life you’re actually living.
There isn’t one moment when you’re suddenly “supposed” to have an estate plan. Often, the reason to begin—or revisit a plan you already have—is simply that something in your life has changed or become important enough that you want to make your wishes clear.
— BUYING A HOME
— GROWING OR BLENDING A FAMILY
— BUILDING ASSETS & WEALTH
— CHOOSING WHO YOU TRUST
— PLANNING FOR INCAPACITY
— PROTECTING PEOPLE YOU LOVE
— THINKING ABOUT YOUR LEGACY
— UPDATING AN OLDER PLAN
where do i start?
You don’t need to know which documents you need before we talk.
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care documents are tools—not the starting point. The starting point is understanding your life, what you want to protect, and what you want to make easier for the people you care about.
We’ll look at your circumstances together and talk through the options that may fit. Your plan can then be built around your actual needs rather than a predetermined list of documents.
The right plan starts with the right questions.
You don’t have to arrive with all the answers. We’ll start with a conversation about your life, the people you’re planning for, and what you want your plan to accomplish. From there, we can determine what makes sense for you.
your plan starts here
Make the decisions now that can make things easier later.
A thoughtful estate plan can give you greater clarity today while helping the people you love navigate tomorrow. When you’re ready, we can begin creating a plan that reflects your wishes and your life.
Serving clients throughout South Carolina.
The Law Office of Lauren Olan, LLC
For what matters now—and what comes next.
Lauren Olan, Attorney
P.O. Box 84
Johns Island, SC 29457
843-806-2641
Principal practice location
Charleston County, South Carolina
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