Joshua West
Associate
Practice Areas
Tax & Estate Planning
Business Planning
Estate & Trusts Administration
Elder Law & Medicaid Planning
Charitable Planning
Health care and financial powers of attorney
Probate & Trusts Litigation
How Mr. West can help you.
1. Determining whether you need a will, trust, beneficiary designations, or some other estate planning.
2. How to protect your assets from future spouses, future stepchildren, and creditors, while protecting your assets for your children.
3. How to lessen the effects of bad financial decisions and poor life choices by your heirs or beneficiaries.
4. How to protect your money and property from the high cost of nursing-home/long-term care.
5. How to properly apply for Medicaid to obtain long-term care.
6. How to designate a person to handle your finances and healthcare in the event you become incapacitated.
7. How to plan for end-of-life care without leaving your loved ones to make difficult decisions.
8. How to choose guardians to take care of your children in the event of your death.
9. Whether and how to avoid probating a will.
10. If you have a trust, properly transferring your assets into the trust.
11. What to do with the assets and property of a deceased loved one.
Location
1 Riverfront Place, Suite 650
North Little Rock, AR 72114
Education
University of Arkansas (BA in Political Science with History Minor)
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Bowen School of Law (JD, 2012, 2nd in class)
Experience
Mr. West has been practicing law since 2012.
Mr. West has helped numerous individuals and families choose between Wills, Trusts, or other planning.
Mr. West has prepared plans designed to build and protect generational wealth, avoid probate, minimize taxes, and protect beneficiaries from creditors, bankruptcies, and divorces.
Mr. West has prepared plans designed to protect special needs individuals from losing their government benefits.
Mr. West has prepared plans designed to provide for minor children in case of the parents’ early death.
Mr. West has prepared plans designed for the unique needs of blended/step-families, providing for the surviving step-parent while also preventing unintentional disinheritance of the decedent’s surviving children.
Mr. West has prepared plans designed to reduce the impact of nursing home or long-term care costs.
Mr. West has helped grieving families properly transfer the assets of their deceased loved-one to the correct heirs and beneficiaries.
Outside the office
Mr. West grew up on a Christmas Tree farm where he learned to work hard and learned the true relationship between a person’s time and money. Mr. West worked in grocery, tire and lube shops, and a music store. He is married with three children and lives in Sherwood, Arkansas. Mr. West also serves as a deacon at the Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in Cabot, Arkansas.
Because of this experience, Mr. West understands the importance of avoiding unnecessary costs in life. Mr. West will strive to give you the best value for the money you spend on your legal matter.
West Little Rock Office
North Little Rock Office
1 Riverfront Place, Suite 650
North Little Rock, AR 72114
Fax: 501-372-1206