Protect what you built. Protect who you love. Keep both out of probate court—forever.
A complete, attorney-designed estate plan. You answer a few simple questions.
We handle everything else. Done in 7 business days.
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You probably already have
"something in place."
That's exactly the problem.
A will. A beneficiary on your 401k. Maybe the house is in both names.
Here's the truth the legal industry won't put on a billboard: none of that keeps your family out of probate court. A will doesn't avoid probate—it sends your family there. Beneficiary designations can be contested or fail. Joint ownership disappears the moment you're both gone.
If you died tomorrow, your family could still end up in court for years, watching your assets drain and your private financial life become public record.
There's only one way to stop it: build your own plan before the government assigns you theirs.
Everyone gets a plan.
Yours—or the government's.
If you don't create your own plan, your family inherits the government's. Here's what the government's plan looks like:
Your assets get frozen. Nothing moves—no accounts, no property—until the court says so. Usually for years.
The government and lawyers take a cut. Court fees, attorney fees, and administrative costs come straight out of your estate, before your family sees a dime.
A stranger makes the final call. A judge you never met decides who gets what—and who raises your kids.
Your finances go public. Probate is public record, which turns your grieving family into targets for scammers and identity thieves.
The court invites your family to fight. By law, the court notifies relatives and creditors and invites them to make a claim. Grief plus money is how families end up suing each other.
Three things people think protect them. None of them do.
"My will protects me"
A will is a list of instructions for a judge. It doesn't keep you out of probate court—it guarantees you go. A person in a black robe decides whether to honor your wishes, after the process drains your estate and burns years your family never gets back.
"I have time"
Later never comes on schedule. Car accidents, heart attacks, and aneurysms don't send a calendar invite. You can't set up your estate plan after the emergency. Every day you wait moves your family one step closer to the consequence of your own procrastination.
"My spouse just gets everything"
Not automatically. And even when joint ownership works once, it collapses the second time. If you and your spouse are ever gone together—one car accident—everything goes straight to probate, and your kids and assets are left completely exposed.
"But I set up transfer-on-death" and
"But it's joint with my spouse."
If you're relying on POD/TOD:
Payable-on-death and transfer-on-death are beneficiary designations—not an estate plan. They move one account to one person. They don't cover business interests, personal property, heirlooms, intellectual property, or money owed to you. If your named beneficiary dies before you, that asset goes to probate. And minors can't legally inherit directly—so the government steps in, appoints a guardian, and charges your estate along the way.
If you're relying on joint tenancy:
Joint tenancy does one thing well: when the first spouse dies, the second inherits. That's where the protection ends. It gives the surviving spouse zero probate protection at their own death. It gives you zero protection if you're both gone at once. And it gives you zero protection if your spouse becomes incapacitated—because to sell or refinance, you'd have to petition a court for the exact process you were trying to avoid.
The one thing that makes probate court go away: a properly built, funded, and managed revocable living trust.
A revocable living trust holds your assets during your life and transfers them to your family after you're gone—no court, no judge, no probate. You decide who gets what, when, and under what conditions. Not a judge.
The trust is the keystone. Everything else is built around it. But here's what almost nobody tells you: a trust that isn't funded is worthless. It's a safe with nothing inside. That's why our system doesn't stop at documents.
Three ways to get an estate plan. Only one actually protects your family.
A cheap plan isn't a safe plan. It's a false sense of security—and that's more dangerous than no plan at all, because you think you're protected right up until your family finds out you weren't.
—The American Bar Association
You answer the questions. We handle everything else.
You don't need to gather a single document first.
You don't need to understand legal language.
You don't need to know the difference between revocable and irrevocable before you start.
You answer our intake questions. Plain English. No jargon. We ask the questions you'd never think to ask.
We build your customized plan. Every document your family needs, designed around your exact situation.
We deliver in 7 business days—and we train you to use it. We walk you through funding your trust with templates so clear a 12-year-old could follow them, and we train your trustee so the plan works when it matters.
All the complexity lands on us. Not on you.
What you get with Enduring Legacy Mentors
A complete, attorney-designed estate plan—customized to you
Not a one-size template that sends you to probate anyway. Every document your family needs, built around your life. No two families are the same; no two plans should be either.
Delivered in 7 business days
Most firms take months. We deliver in 7 business days so you can put down the weight of being unprotected sooner. Barring anything outside of our control, if we fail to deliver by the deadline, you receive a $100 credit for every day we miss, up to $500.
We train your trustee
The trustee manages and distributes everything you've built. If they fail, the whole plan fails. You wouldn't board a plane with an untrained pilot—your legacy deserves the same standard.
We teach you to fund your trust
An asset left outside your trust is unprotected. We make funding so simple a 12-year-old could do it, and we hand you the exact templates and forms.
365 days of revisions
Life changes—new grandchild, new property, new wishes. Instead of paying $300–$800 an hour, your plan gets updated by our attorneys at no additional cost for a full year.
Families who chose their plan over the government's
Hari built a multi-hotel business with a wife and son depending on him. He knew that without a plan, all of it would land in probate. ELM built his family a complete estate plan—so he can focus on his family and his business, never worrying about probate again.
Michele didn't want her two adult children to inherit a probate nightmare. Today she travels the world knowing her children and her assets are protected long after she's gone.
Debbie has two adult autistic children, and a direct inheritance could have disqualified them from government benefits. ELM built her plan so her kids are cared for and her chosen guardians can step in when she's gone.
Why us
Together they built Enduring Legacy Mentors on one conviction: the families and entrepreneurs who've built the most are often the least protected—and they're exactly who pays the highest price when there's no plan.
Seth Kniep
Co-Founder & CEO
A former consultant for Amazon, BMW, and Forever 21, Seth has spent 12 years helping people build their wealth.
Ron Palmiter
Co-Founder & CSO
Ron has spent almost three decades helping people protect their wealth.
Honest answers to what you're probably thinking
Estate planning isn't just asset protection. It's naming a guardian for your kids, deciding who gets what, and stating your healthcare wishes if you're ever incapacitated. Without a plan, families of nearly every size still end up in probate.
Conflict doesn't come from money—it comes from ambiguity. Unclear instructions and outdated documents leave family members guessing, and guessing turns into lawsuits. A specific, customized plan removes the guesswork. The best plan doesn't just protect what you leave behind—it protects your family from each other.
That's the point of the call. You don't have to figure any of it out first. You answer questions; we handle the rest.
Templates hand you paperwork and walk away. We deliver an attorney-designed plan customized to you, then train your trustee and teach you to fund it—the two steps that decide whether a plan actually works.
There's only one question left: are the people you love worth protecting?
Prince had time—he left $250 million and no plan, and his family spent six years fighting in court. Larry King had time—he had a will, and his widow and son still battled for 17 months. They had every advisor money could buy. They still ran out of time.
So will the rest of us.
The only difference between them and you is the next 60 seconds.
What happens on your call:
We listen—you tell us what you've built and who you love.
We find the gaps—where probate could reach your family.
We show you what a finished plan looks like for your situation.
You walk away knowing exactly where you stand—whether you work with us or not.