Who We Are
Who is Tallgrass Estate Planning?
Laurel founded Tallgrass Estate Planning, LLP in 2016, along with Riley Kern, as a home-based law firm Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her goal was to create a different kind of law firm - one that reaches out to people who are routinely overlooked by traditional law firms or people who are hesitant to work with traditional firms. Tallgrass Estate Planning has grown into a full service, family-oriented law firm in Midtown Tulsa, focused on trust planning, asset protection, and business succession strategies.
What is Estate Planning and Elder Law?
What is estate planning and elder law? Many see these terms as distant from their lives, thinking, "Only wealthy people have estates, and that's not me." In reality, an "estate" means your belongings, your body, and your values—regardless of their value. Since everyone has an estate, everyone needs an estate plan.
An estate plan addresses key questions: If something happens to you, who will pay your mortgage and bills? Who'll ensure your kids get to school? Who's responsible for communicating with your doctor? How do you protect your assets from creditors or lawsuits? If your parents need financial help, do you have the authority to assist? That's estate planning.
Elder law covers legal issues related to aging. Our practice focuses on guardianship of incapacitated adults, Medicaid asset protection, VA benefits, and crisis Medicaid planning.
Why Does Tallgrass Estate Planning Work This Way?
Because estate planning is an intensely personal process, Laurel and Riley have created an informal but thorough conversational process to discover clients' needs, priorities, and values, and then design and execute customized estate plans and services.
We call this three-step process Discovery, Design, and Delivery. Throughout the process, Tallgrass Estate Planning, LLP is committed to the core principles of education, hospitality, and inclusion. Your assets, your priorities, and your concerns are different from those of other people, so your estate plan will be different from those of other people, but everyone needs a plan.
What Does Tallgrass Estate Planning Do?
Our estate planning and elder law practice involves the following tools and strategies:
-Revocable living trusts
-Irrevocable trusts and asset protection
-Special needs planning
-Last will and testament
-Probate and estate administration
-Trust administration
-Guardianship for incapacitated adults
-Medicaid asset protection planning
-Veterans Aid & Attendance planning
-Business succession
In short, no matter who you are or what you have, we help you answer critical questions about who is in charge of you and your stuff during health, disability, and death, as well as who benefits from what you have.
Our Attorney
Riley Kern is Of Counsel with Tallgrass Estate Planning, working with the firm in an ancillary capacity to support its estate planning services and client needs. He is also the Managing Attorney of Roots Law, P.C., where he leads the firm's estate planning practice. For more information, visit www.rootsep.com
Laurel Carbone is a managing partner of Tallgrass Estate Planning. She is passionate about using her position as an attorney for community service and justice. She believes estate planning is for everyone, and not only for those who are concerned about building generational wealth or planning for tax efficiency. She loves working with families who are planning for special needs, and she thrives when giving a voice to those who are often overlooked in traditional estate planning.
As a native of Washington state, she is the catalyst behind Tallgrass Northwest. More than any other attorney at Tallgrass, Laurel has an affinity for handling sensitive or contested trust, estate, and guardianship litigation. As a mother, Laurel is committed to providing rich experiences for her children and modeling service and self-reliance. She is flower gardener, a runner, and a DIY-project lover, and she is preparing for a rim-to-rim Grand Canyon hike.
Get in touch with Tallgrass Estate Planning.
We are here to address your concerns, answer your questions, and help you create an effective plan that will bring you peace of mind.
