Frequently Asked Questions

I help North Carolina families with estate planning, prenuptial, postnuptial, and separation agreements, help preparing your own divorce, parenting plans, executor coaching, and special education help. Each service has its own page with its scope and fee. My Will-Based Estate Plan can include a will, a financial power of attorney, a health-care power of attorney, a living will, and a HIPAA authorization. I recommend which ones fit you.

A will-based estate plan begins with a conversation about your goals, your family, and what you own. I also check that nothing, such as a conflict of interest, keeps me from helping you. After that review, the exact scope is set in a written engagement agreement.

If your situation needs any of these, I tell you before you sign anything:

• a living trust, or anything already held in a trust;
• a separate, standalone trust (your will itself can hold a young child's or grandchild's share until an age you choose, and that is included);
• deeds, or retitling or recording property;
• real property outside North Carolina;
• a business other than a sole proprietorship or a North Carolina LLC you own alone, and any work on a business itself, such as keeping it running, naming who runs it, or a buy-sell or operating agreement;
• settling an estate after someone has died.

Some other situations, such as an estate that may owe estate tax or a beneficiary with a disability, also need a different kind of plan. I tell you at the start if yours is one of them.

Yes, you can make the first contact. Your parent is my client, even if you contact me or pay. I speak with your parent directly, and I decide case by case who is in the room. What your parent tells me stays confidential. Before I accept payment from anyone other than the client, I review it privately with the client, and the person paying does not direct the work.

Yes, for a sole proprietorship, or for a North Carolina LLC you own alone whose documents say nothing about what happens at your death. It is the Will-Based Estate Plan, at the same $1,250. For that LLC, your estate receives the money rights at your death, not the right to run the company, and this plan does no work to keep the company going. Corporations, partnerships, LLCs with other owners or formed outside North Carolina, professional practices, and work on the business itself are outside this plan, and I tell you at the start.

The plan is $1,250 for one adult. Outside costs, such as notary fees, are separate.

Yes. A couple, married or not, can have both plans prepared together for $2,000 for two. Each of you gets your own documents and signs only your own. I represent you both together, so anything either of you tells me about the plans is shared with both of you. Either of you can end the joint representation at any time and should confirm it in writing; I can then continue for one of you only with the other's written consent and no conflict. If your interests come into conflict, each of you will need your own lawyer. Both of you must live in North Carolina. Outside costs, such as notary fees, are separate.

The $1,250 covers planning, documents tailored to you, one round of revisions, signing guidance, a review of the signed set, and closing.

Yes, the fee is not all-inclusive. You also pay notary fees (up to $10 per signature), a paid witness if one is needed, printing and mailing, and any recording fees or certified copies. Notary travel is reimbursed only as actual mileage at the federal business rate, and only if you agree in writing before the travel. There is no flat travel or mobile charge.

1. You email me or use the inquiry form.
2. I review fit, conflicts, and options before accepting anything.
3. If I can help, you get a written engagement agreement. You sign it electronically.
4. You pay online by card or bank transfer (eCheck), from a secure payment link or invoice I email you.
5. I prepare your documents and coordinate signing.
6. I print your finished documents and mail them by USPS to the address you confirm with me.

Typically 2 to 4 weeks from our first conversation to signing. That is a typical range, not a promise. It depends on when we meet, your revisions, and when everyone can be together for signing.

No. I work with clients who live in North Carolina.

To contact me, email hello@enemchukwu.esq or use the inquiry form. Your name and a short description of what you need is enough. Please keep confidential details out of your first message. Inquiries do not establish an attorney-client relationship.

Only after I review fit, conflicts, and options. I take on a matter only through a written engagement agreement, which you sign electronically.

I tell you promptly, in writing.

Online by card or bank transfer (eCheck), from a secure payment link or invoice I email you. Any advance for work not yet done is held in the firm's trust account until it is earned. I don't take payment through this website, and I don't accept paper checks.

In person in North Carolina, with two witnesses and a notary. You can sign with a notary near you, at my Raleigh office, or at your home. I prepare your documents, give you signing guidance, and coordinate the signing, then review the signed set before closing.

I print your finished documents in house and mail them by USPS to the address you confirm with me. Signed documents are never sent by email.

Please keep confidential details out of your first message. Inquiries do not establish an attorney-client relationship. I have no secure file or message exchange, so please don't email Social Security numbers, account numbers, or medical records.

No. Visiting the site, emailing me, or sending the inquiry form does not make you my client. I take on a matter only through a signed written engagement agreement.