About Claire Marden

Fourteen years downtown, then this.

Big-firm training, brought to the ordinary will.

A woman in a camel coat standing at a desk, reading a file.

How it started

The documents that did the most good were the ordinary ones.

I spent fourteen years in a downtown trusts and estates group. It was excellent training, and a strange place to learn what most families actually need, which is a will that exists: written, signed, and findable, at a price that doesn’t stop them getting it.

So I opened this practice with the fees printed and the billable hour left behind. An estate plan shouldn’t be billed like litigation. Three meetings and it’s done, usually inside three weeks.

How the practice works

Four rules, kept.

  • Flat fees, printed. The number on the website is the number on the invoice.
  • Plain English. Every page is read and explained before it is signed. Clients call it translating.
  • Three meetings, then done. A conversation, a reading and a signing, usually inside three weeks.
  • The will before the trust. The more expensive package is for the people who genuinely need it, and no one else.
A figure of Justice, a magnifying glass and a printed document on a pale desk.
Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in a quiet room with leather chairs.
Fourteen years of reading the long version, so that you don’t have to.

Come and ask

Bring the question you’ve been sitting on.

A will from years ago, a house in two states, or just where to start. Call, and you’ll get a straight answer and a printed price.

Phone(619) 555-0164
Emailclaire@mardenestatelaw.com
WhereSan Diego, California
FeesFlat, and printed on this site
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