ERAKA L. CHILDS, ESQ.

Estate planning is about more than preparing documents.

This program helps participants understand the planning decisions that can matter before incapacity, illness, or death creates an urgent situation.

Probate can feel overwhelming when families do not know what happens next.

This workshop provides a practical introduction to Texas probate, wills, intestacy, heirship, executor responsibilities, estate records, property, and common challenges.

Families may face difficult questions when someone can no longer make decisions independently.

This program explores capacity, guardianship, powers of attorney, supported decision-making, and other planning considerations.

Major family transitions can create legal, financial, and emotional uncertainty.

This workshop provides a practical framework for understanding issues involving divorce, separation, children, property, support, safety, mediation, and court processes.

Building a business requires more than a good idea.

This program helps entrepreneurs understand business structure, ownership, agreements, contracts, intellectual property, records, risk management, and professional support.

Business owners often focus on building the business without thinking about what happens when circumstances change.

This program explores continuity, ownership transitions, agreements, succession, key-person considerations, and the connection between business and personal planning.

Trusts can sound complicated.

This workshop breaks down trust roles, revocable trusts, funding, titling, beneficiaries, trustee responsibilities, and common misconceptions in practical language.

Long-term care can affect more than healthcare decisions.

This program explores long-term-care costs, Medicare and Medicaid, eligibility considerations, transfers, family decisions, the home, caregiving, and Texas Medicaid Estate Recovery.