Estate Planning · Strategic Business Advisor · Guardianship · Probate & Trust Administration

Get on the path
to peace of mind®

Personalized estate plans designed to protect your family and keep you out of court and conflict. We start by listening — then design a plan through our Life & Legacy Planning Process, and we stay in the relationship every three years after. Proudly serving Northern Virginia and the D.C. region.

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Four practices, one firm

Built around outcomes, not documents.

Many estate planning attorneys take a "one-size-fits-all" approach — they sell documents, not results. We do this differently. Whether you need a will, a trust, business succession, guardianship, or probate help, our practice is built for the long-term relationship.

How we work

Three conversations.
One plan that holds.

Most firms hand you a stack of forms. We start with a two-hour Life and Legacy Planning Session, design around what we hear, and review your plan every three years to make sure it still fits.
01

Listen

A two-hour Life and Legacy Planning Session™. We map your family, your assets, and what you actually want — before mentioning a single document.

Two hours · Paid planning session
02

Design

You see your options side-by-side with flat-fee pricing. You choose the plan that fits. We draft, sign, and fund it — including the parts most firms skip.

Flat fees · No surprises
03

Review

Every three years we sit down again. Laws change, families grow, assets shift. We make sure the plan still works — at no additional cost.

Every 3 years · Included
See the full process
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My husband and I had an excellent experience developing our estate plan with attorney John Heck. He exceeded our expectations in every way. We appreciate the comprehensive end product "estate notebook" and John's professionalism and attention to detail. We highly recommend John and his approach to estate planning.
— Gail M. · ★★★★★ on Google
John Heck, Founder of Trust Your Family
Why this firm exists

I started this firm because my own family almost didn't have a plan.

I'm an estate planning attorney, but I'm also a parent, a spouse, and someone who has watched friends lose months — and sometimes years — to probate court. Most of that pain is preventable.

So this firm is built around a simple promise: you'll always know what something costs before we start; you'll never sign a document you don't understand; and because lives don't stand still, every plan we build comes with a review program — every three years for all clients, every year for members of our FamilyCare Program — so it still works when your family actually needs it.

— John
Founder & Personal Family Lawyer®
More about the firm
Start with a conversation

The first call is about your family,
not your documents.

Book a discovery call 571·56·TRUST571·568·7878
Free discovery call · 15 minutes · By appointment