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Estate planning is the process of anticipating and arranging, during a person's life, for the management and disposal of that person's estate during the person's life and at and after death, while minimizing gift, estate, generation skipping transfer, and income tax.

Estate planning includes planning for incapacity as well as a process of reducing or eliminating uncertainties over the administration of a probate and maximizing the value of the estate by reducing taxes and other expenses.

The ultimate goal of estate planning can be determined by the specific goals of the client, and may be as simple or complex as the client's needs dictate.

Guardians are often designated for minor children and beneficiaries in incapacity.

Attorney at law or attorney-at-law, usually abbreviated in everyday speech to attorney, is the preferred term for a practising lawyer in certain jurisdictions, including South Africa (for certain lawyers), Sri Lanka, and the United States.

In Canada, it is used only in Quebec.

The term has its roots in the verb , meaning to transfer one's rights and obligations to another.

A trust is a relationship whereby property is held by one party for the benefit of another.

A trust is created by a settlor, who transfers property to a trustee.

The trustee holds that property for the trust's beneficiaries.

Trusts exist mainly in common law jurisdictions and similar systems existed since Roman times.

Legal advertising is advertising by lawyers (attorneys at law) and law firms.

Legal marketing is a broader term referring to advertising and other practices, such as client relations, cross-selling, public relations and maintaining contact with Alumni.

Legal instrument is a legal term of art that is used for any formally executed written document that can be formally attributed to its author, records and formally expresses a legally enforceable act, process, or contractual duty, obligation, or right, and therefore evidences that act, process, or agreement.

Examples include a , deed, bond, contract, will, legislative act, notarial act, court writ or process, or any law passed by a competent legislative body in municipal (domestic) or international law.

Many legal instruments were written under seal by affixing a wax or paper seal to the document in evidence of its legal execution and authenticity (which often removes the need for consideration in contract law); however, today many jurisdictions have done away with the requirement of documents being under seal in order to give them legal effect.