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I'm forwarding you an email from Celeste Miller at KCBA who is looking for attorneys across the state for referrals for kinship caregivers seeking estate planning services. Please see below and email Celeste if you are interested.
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Jenny</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Ling, Esq.</span><br></strong></span><em>Attorney and Counselor at Law<br>she/her</em></span>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">14900 Interurban Ave. S., Ste 280 | Seattle, WA 98168</span>
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Dear Real Property & Probate Section members,
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I am looking for interested attorneys for a referral list for kinship caregivers who are seeking estate planning services. If you are interested, please email me at <a href="mailto:celestem@kcba.org">celestem@kcba.org</a> and let me know which counties you practice in, and if you are willing to consider pro bono or low bono services, along with regular fee referrals. Any region across the state is welcome!
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I have partnered with Jenny Ling from Law Offices of Jenny Ling to provide an overview on estate planning to a group of kinship caregivers in SW Washington this month. If anyone practices in SW Washington, including Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Wahkiakum, or Skamania Counties, and is interested in having their names listed as referrals for this specific group we present to, please let me know. I am hoping to replicate the presentation for other regions of Washington as well.
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Kinship caregivers are people who are raising relative children for different reasons, primarily for parental opioid and substance abuse issues, incarceration, mental illness, child abuse and neglect, parental death, or military deployment. These families represent all income levels, races, and ethnicities. In Washington State an estimated 45,000 children are being raised by grandparents and other relatives, not including those in relative foster care. Many kinship caregivers are grandparents who are on a fixed income who end up unexpectedly raising their grandchildren.
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Kinship caregivers often have specific questions about planning for the care of the child in case of their death, questions about how to leave assets to a child they are the legal guardian of, or even when they are not the legal guardian but have been raising the child informally.
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I manage a legal aid program that gives legal advice to kinship caregivers on topics regarding legal custody and guardianship, benefits, educational rights, and more. But when we are asked about estate planning we can give them some advice but not complete estate plans with them. There are some self-help resources available on Washington Law Help and on Wa-Wills, but I would also like to be able to provide referrals to our clients for creating an estate plan whenever possible.
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I welcome questions or ideas, if anyone is interested in partnering on an estate planning clinic for kinship caregivers or something similar, I would be happy to work together in the future!
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Sincerely,
<br>Celeste
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<strong>Celeste E. Miller</strong> (she/her)
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<em>Statewide Kinship Care Legal Aid Coordinator </em>
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(206) 267-7100
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Direct: (206) 267-7073
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1200 5th Ave, Suite 700
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Seattle, WA 98101
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