EXHIBIT A — YOUR PEACE OF MIND

Portage · Kalamazoo · est. 2002

Get your affairs in order without needing a law degree.

Wills, trusts, probate and Medicaid — explained at a kitchen table, in words you already know. Bill Wieringa has spent twenty-plus years making sure Kalamazoo families understand every page they sign.

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FREE

Free consultations

Consultations, office visits and estate-plan updates are free — no obligation, no clock running.

SAME DAY

Same-day call-backs

Call before the end of business and you'll hear back the same day.

HOUSE CALL

Your kitchen table

Can't come in? Bill comes to you — home visits across the Kalamazoo area.

DIRECT

Bill's cell number

Clients get his cell. When something happens, you don't talk to a machine.

The Wieringa difference

We don't talk like this.

Legal documents are written to be precise, not to be understood. Bill's job — his actual philosophy — is that an informed client is the key to doing a good job. So here's what the fine print really says:

“The Settlor hereby transfers, assigns and conveys unto the Trustee all right, title and interest in the property described in Schedule A, to have and to hold in trust nevertheless…”

Real clauses · real translation

Every document Bill drafts comes with the plain-English version of what it does — before you sign anything.

Have something translated — free

Two minutes, no email required

Where do you stand?

Four honest questions. Nothing is collected or sent anywhere — this stays on your screen. It just tells you what to ask Bill first.

Do you have a will?

01/04

Any signed will counts — even an old one.

Do you have powers of attorney?

02/04

Someone legally named for money and medical decisions if you can't make them.

Is your home protected from probate?

03/04

A living trust or lady-bird deed — 'the house is in the will' means no.

Reviewed in the last 5 years?

04/04

Laws, marriages, grandkids, moves — plans age faster than people think.

The four folders

What Bill actually does

Everything in this office fits in four folders. Open them.

Wills, living trusts, powers of attorney, patient advocate designations.

Wills, living trusts, powers of attorney, patient advocate designations — the paperwork that says who decides, who inherits, and who's protected.

When to come in

The right time is when nothing is wrong. Every document is easier, cheaper and calmer before there's a diagnosis or a crisis.

Ask about estate planning — free

What Bill does differently

Explains every option, lets you decide — never the other way around
Drafts the plan AND the plain-English summary of what it does
Updates it free, for life, as your family changes

Exhibit B — the attorney

The least 'lawyer' lawyer you'll ever meet.

Bill didn't take the usual road here — and that's exactly why families trust him with the hard conversations.

The farm

Raised on a dairy farm halfway between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. Chores before school. It shows.

The Air Force

Four years as a Russian linguist in the U.S. Air Force. Precision under pressure, in two languages.

The factory

College on the GI Bill while working full-time on the floor — then years in industrial supervision and human resources, learning how real families actually live.

The law

Law school on the weekends, without quitting the day job. J.D., cum laude, Thomas M. Cooley — admitted to the Michigan Bar in 2002.

This office

Two decades of wills, trusts and kitchen tables across Portage and Kalamazoo. Same-day call-backs. His cell number in your pocket.

“An informed client is the key to doing a good job.”
Bill Wieringa — the philosophy the whole practice runs on

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Around town

Hospice Care of SW Michigan — volunteer
Portage Senior Citizens Advisory Board
Portage Rotary
Kalamazoo County Bar Association
State Bar of Michigan — Probate & Estate, Elder Law sections

Asked at every kitchen table

The questions everyone's afraid to ask

It's for anyone who owns a home, has kids, or has an opinion about who gets what. Without a plan, Michigan's intestate rules decide — publicly, slowly, and often not the way your family expects.

Your question isn't here? That's what the free consultation is for.

Ask Bill directly

The reference drawer

Links Bill actually gives to families

The agencies and organizations that come up at almost every kitchen table — benefits, caregiving, Michigan programs. Bookmark what applies; ask Bill about the rest.

Benefits & government

Michigan programs

Caregiving & memory care

A link here isn't an endorsement, and outside sites aren't legal advice — when in doubt, just call and ask. It's free.

No obligation

Exhibit C — the next step

The consultation is free. The relief is immediate.

Call the office, or just start with a question. If getting here is hard, Bill comes to your kitchen table — Portage, Kalamazoo, Comstock Township and the areas around them.

(269) 324-8385

By appointment — including evenings and home visits. Same-day call-backs on every message.

Nothing to prepare — bring questions, not paperwork
No obligation, no retainer to sit down
Leave knowing exactly what you need (and what you don't)

1112 E. Centre Avenue, Portage, MI 49002 bill@wieringalaw.com