Estate Planning Services

Do you know what would happen to your children and everyone and everything you love, if something happened to you?

Schedule a 15-Minute Discovery Call so we can support you with the clarity of knowing you've done the right thing by the people you care about most.

The Life & Legacy Planning you and your family deserve.

Sea of the North is Minnesota's trusted estate planning counsel—making real your legacy today and tomorrow, keeping you out of court and out of conflict.

Why do you need estate planning?

Avoid Leaving a Mess.

Will? Trust? Something else entirely?
If you don’t choose, the State already has a plan for you—pre-fabricated, one-size-fits-none, designed by committee, administered by strangers in suits who don’t know you.

So we sit down, and instead of pretending this is about forms and signatures (though, yes, it is partly about forms and signatures), we talk about your actual family system: the tangled loyalties, the half-spoken resentments, the kid you worry isn’t “ready,” the spouse who’s now an ex but still shows up at Thanksgiving. We also take a sober look at your assets (house, 401k, the cabin “up north,” the ‘98 Subaru that won’t die).

Then we overlay those human realities on the legal scaffolding: what happens if you do nothing, what happens if you do something, and what happens if you do the right something, calibrated to your budget and your threshold for future family squabbles.

The upshot: you walk away with a plan that actually fits—your people, your money, your fears, your hopes. A plan that keeps your family out of court, out of conflict, and maybe, just maybe, still speaking to each other after it's all said and done.

Protect Who (and What) Matters.

It doesn’t matter how much money you have.
Because estate planning, when it’s done right, is less fixated on wealth. It’s more focused on weight. The gravity of being a person who loves other people and knows that someday you won’t be here to love them directly.

It’s about stepping into that knowledge, being with it long enough to make some clear-eyed decisions that ripple outward toward the people you care about most.

The real work boils down to a tender acknowledgment that the things we’ve built (families, homes, identities, retirement accounts, relationships with our dogs) deserve some continuity.

So that’s what we do. We sit with you. We ask good questions—the kind that help you remember what you already know. And then we help you translate all of that love (and the complexity of being human) into a plan that works and provides that continuity.

So, whether or not you're rich; whether or not you're certain (you don’t even need to know what a trust is)—you just need to care enough to start. We’ll walk with you from there.

Find Financial Peace of Mind.

Don’t fail your people.
Even if you’ve already “done a plan”—signed the papers (notarized, of course!) filed the binder on a shelf—there’s a relatively large chance it won’t work when it’s supposed to.

Why? Because estate plans fail in embarrassingly mundane ways. They fail when the advice was generic. They fail when five years pass and nobody updates the beneficiary designations after a remarriage or a divorce or a kid goes rogue. They fail when the accounts aren’t titled properly, when the house is still in your name alone, when you thought “funding the trust” happened automatically (it doesn't).

And then—surprise!—your family, the people you swore you were protecting, are suddenly knee-deep in court hearings, fees, arguments, the slow grind of legal machinery that does not care about the fact that your daughter hates public speaking and will now be forced to testify.

The truth: your family deserves more than the illusion of safety in a three-ring binder. They deserve something alive, maintained, reality-tested, and yours—not the state’s, not the internet’s, not the ex-partner’s new lawyer’s.

There's no better time than today.

We'll make it easy and affordable for you to do the right thing for yourself and the people you love. Our processes and systems are all designed to educate you, help you choose the right legal and financial strategies, and then execute on those strategies, especially when you are busy and life is full.