Mr. Benjamin Scott Johns Esquire

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Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Compassionate Client Advocacy

Experience: 14 years

Estate Planning, Elder Law and Probate

Pennsylvania and Texas

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• I am a passionate advocate for families who are in need of estate plans which take into account their unique situations and concerns. I enjoy engaging with the concerns of an aging population through carefully planned, drafted and executed estate plans contemplating inherited IRAs using standalone retirement trusts and charitable remainder trusts, Medicaid spend down strategies, asset protection, and creditor protection for beneficiaries, advanced will techniques such as separate share trusts, testamentary trusts, insurance trusts, revocable living trusts and irrevocable trusts both of grantor and non-grantor varieties.
• I embrace the many different ways that I can assist with the unique challenges and opportunities presented when planning for Special Needs beneficiaries including the use of first, third and pooled special needs trusts, appropriate trustee provisions and thoughtful understanding of what makes each beneficiary different and what those differences will mean for the family and responsible people after the plan is in effect.
• Constantly learning, reading and adapting what others choose to look at as 'static forms' including custom drafted power of attorneys contemplating specific conditions of each client, including dementia standalone documents for all clients without additional fees. Continuing contact with palliative care professionals to further enhance these documents with the aim of eventually having a statutory version to protect all. A dedication to the needs of the aging population far beyond what others rely on in forms and software solutions.
• Routinely teach accredited CLE courses as well as private speaking engagements on a wide range of topics. These include niche trust arrangements, charitable trusts, constitutional law, pronoun specific document preparation and general practice management, probate practice, medicaid and VA lookbacks and ethical concerns in the practice of law.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Pennsylvania

Since 2009

Texas

Since 2012

Education

2006 - 2009

Duquesne University School of Law

J.D. (2009)

Honors: Order of the Barristers Certificate of Legal Studies-China (June 2007) Pro Bono Certificate of Recognition (2009), CALI Award Winner, International Environmental Law (2008)

2002 - 2005

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh

B.A. (2005) | Politics & Philosophy

Honors: Honors College

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Law Office of Benjamin Scott Johns, PLLC 510 Washington Ave Suite 308 Carnegie PA 15106

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Mr. Benjamin Scott Johns Esquire Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Compassionate Client Advocacy

Experience: 14 years

Website: Open

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Estate Planning

Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills

Elder Law

Probate

Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests

Languages

English: Spoken, Written

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