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You choose your fee.
Once you understand the options, you pick the level of planning that matches your goals and your budget — not the cheapest one by default.
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How much does an estate plan cost?
The honest answer is more useful than a number — and far cheaper than the wrong plan.
Before We Talk Price
There is no single number
As you can imagine, this is the question we hear most often. It is a fair question, and one we want to answer as plainly as we can — even though there is no single number that fits every family. If a lawyer ever quotes you a flat fee by email or over the phone, before any meaningful conversation about your life, your family, and what you actually own, run.
That kind of pricing is exactly why most estate plans fail. Families shop by sticker — because no one has shown them another way to shop — and end up with a stack of traditional documents that simply do not work when their family needs them.
We have priced our planning at the intersection of affordability and effectiveness. The consultation alone leaves your family more financially organized than they have ever been.
Pierce Law Group
Section I
Why most estate plans fail
A plan is not a binder of forms. It is a set of decisions about the people you love, made while you can still make them with care. Most plans fail because they were sold like a product — priced on the package, not on the outcome.
When we meet, we review everything you own and discuss everyone you love. You leave understanding exactly what would happen to all of it — your home, your accounts, your children — in the event of your death or incapacity. If you already have a plan, we read it with you. If you have nothing, we explain the plan the State of North Carolina has written for you by default.
Reader’s note
“Comprehensive consultation” is not a marketing phrase. We mean it literally — an inventory of every asset, every account, every wish. Many clients tell us it is the most organized they have ever felt about their finances.
Section II
Four conversations, not a quote
Pricing comes last, because it can only be honest after these four conversations. Walk through them — each one ends with something you keep.
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Inventory
You arrive with what you have — home, accounts, retirement, business interests, the works. We help you map it. Before pricing, before paperwork.
You leave with · a complete map of what you own -
Discovery
We sit together and talk about the people you love. What you want for them. What you fear for them. What you have never said out loud about either.
You leave with · your wishes, finally in words -
Review
If you already have a plan, we read it with you. If you don’t, we explain the plan the State has written for you by default. You decide what you want to change.
You leave with · a clear picture of the default -
Design
You choose the level of planning that matches your goals and your budget. Same care, same lawyers — different depths, different fees. No upsell. No mystery.
You leave with · a plan priced by you
Section III
Three principles behind our fees
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The consultation alone is valuable.
Even if you never engage us further, you leave with a complete inventory of what you own and a clear picture of what would happen to it.
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Informed decisions, not shopping.
Our work is to educate you quickly so the decisions you make for the people you love are unmistakably your own.
Ready to make an informed decision?
Book a free case evaluation. We will spend the time understanding your family before discussing a single fee.