Thank you for seeing our ad in Metro Parent!  Both my mom and I are parents and while my mom had kids pre-magazines (ha!)  I have always enjoyed Metro Parent.  When we got the opportunity to share our fabulous will price with other parents, we jumped at the chance!  Here is the procedure for wills:

We charge charge $300 for a will.  If the will is mutually similar, for example if a married couple (or any couple) is giving the same items to eachother, then the two wills are $300.

Please contact our office for the will questionnaire.  This questionnaire will get you oriented to the type of decisions you need to make.  Please return the questionnaire with $300.  Only then can we begin drafting your will.

We will then send you a draft of your will.  If you have any questions, it’s best to for us to answer them then.

Next we schedule a will execution.  At that time you will need to bring in one witness (generally Elizabeth acts as one witness and Theresa as notary).  This witness cannot have taken in your will!  If you cannot find a friendly neighbor (or pastor or friend) then we can work on a time when there are other people in the office who can witness.

A will service can also contain an Advanced Directive and/or Power of Attorney.  These documents are not necessary to the will and can be found at Stevens-Ness Legal Publishing Co. at http://www.stevens-ness.com, 916 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204, 503.223.3137.

Also, please consider attending our will seminars to get your general questions answered.  We look forward to meeting you!

It’s an exciting honor!  Theresa M. Kohlhoff was elected by her peers to be on the Board of Governors of the Oregon State Bar, the entity that fulfills the executive functions of the bar, determines its general policies and approves its budget.  Her term will run from January, 1212 through December, 2015.  The bar exists, in part, to advance the science of law and to improve the administration of justice.  She will begin her orientation on November 17th.  One of the benefits we anticipate for the clients of Kohlhoff & Welch will be the connections made with other lawyers all through the state.  We will be better informed and made more creative by these associations.  It’s a huge commitment but given the stakes today for the court system and the jury trial in particular, it’s where we should focus.

I’ll be there, sure that if only I had done one more 20 mile run, gone up more hills, lifted a few more weights, gotten up at 4:30AM instead of 5AM to train, had a tiny bit more of a positive and/or fighting attitude, I would qualify for Boston today and/or get over the finish line a little faster this year.  Shot and then wait to go over the start line.  Taiko drummers.  Guys peeing on the wall about a mile out for no apparent reason.  Up a little hill, back down Naito Parkway, then long out and back before hitting NW PDX.  Highway 30 stretches a lot further than you think before you go over the St. John’s Bridge.  Belly dancers.  Smiling UP students handing out some form of hydration.  Steel Bridge, peeing wall, and then Naito Parkway.  Heading home, knowing it’s going to happen.  The fat Viking lady is singing before turning the corner in front of the Justice Building.  I try to empty out the very last bits of energy I possess so it appears that I have flashed over that finish line.  I bend my head a bit to get my medal and catch the smile of my husband, Mike, who always finds a way to shoehorn himself where he can be the first to congratulate me.  Ice cream, oranges, and water, water, water.  I’m a human salt lick.  I won’t qualify for Boston, of course, but I will be entirely happy with myself, and grateful to have done the marathon one more time.  (Theresa, the mother in this mother/daughter partnership.)