From simple wills and powers of attorney, to handling messy family estate disputes and investigating Medicaid or other public benefit options to pay for nursing home care, we’re here for you.

Generation Law provides personalized estate planning, guardianship litigation and related elder law services to help protect you and your family. Bring us your questions about creating a will or trust, planning for an elderly parent, or dealing with probate once they’re gone. We’ll help you make sense of it all so that you can maintain control of your future, your parents’ future and your kids’ future.

How can we help you?

Elder Law

Managing life’s final stretch.

Estate Planning

Making sure your wishes are carried out.

Wills & Trusts

Thy Will Be Done.

Guardianships

Protecting your loved one, from themselves and from the bad guys.

Special Needs Planning

So your most vulnerable loved ones are always taken care of.
Post-Death Services

Routine Estate Administration

Putting everything to rest.
Post-Death Services

Contested Estate and Trust Litigation

When you need a contender for the courtroom bouts.

Not sure what you need?

That’s what our service guide is there for.

Service Guide

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Testimonials

A very special thank you for your expertise. You were very helpful and gave us great information with our situation. It was a pleasure meeting you and we look forward to working together with you in the future.
Once again, you’ve calmed my fears and given me solid answers with simple direction. Thank you so much. You are doing great work helping keep sanity in our stressful, complicated world.
Ben and his team provide amazing suppport for those of us ‘Boomers’ who are part of the sandwich generation. Trying to plan for the needs of a grade school child AND elderly parents requires the empathy and expertise that Generation Law provides head and shoulders above the rest! I recommend them to my clients, friends and family on a regular basis.
By the time you need Ben’s services, you are confused by the maze of regulation; often fighting with the differences between your state and the one in which your loved one lives; and looking for someone sharp, empathic and able to cut through the mess in an organized and straight-talk way. Lots of people out there claim to be that person. From personal experience, Ben IS!
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Speeches and Events: Spring 2019

It’s a busy spring for Generation Law as we share planning tips at events across Illinois. Here’s where you can catch us: On April 13, attorney Melissa Johnson shares strategies for creating powers of attorney during the Huntington’s Disease Society...

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Ask an Attorney: Heir-Raising Tales of DIY Estate Planning

By Melissa Johnson, Generation Law I do not know an attorney or estate planner out there who does not have a horror story about a client who tried to draft a will or trust on their own. While the cookie-cutter...

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Leaving Behind a Mess: 3 Common Estate Planning Mistakes to Avoid

Are you haunted by what you have or haven’t done with your will? Many people who have had a will drawn up confess they aren’t really sure what they signed. Others don’t follow through on important next steps that cause...

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The Stories Grandma Never Told You

Generation Law is proud to sponsor “The Crones,” a podcast, blog and photo gallery sharing the conversations and stories of wise and wonderful women in their 70s, 80s and beyond. Brought to you by retired roller derby crone, Barbara “Queen B” Dolan, as she travels the country in her shiny vintage trailer, meeting fascinating elder women and sharing their lives and wisdom in their own voices.

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