DenHerder & Associates

My husband and I were searching for an attorney to update our family trust. After a diligent search, we chose Stacy. She met and exceeded our original goals! Stacy has extensive knowledge/​expertise about estate planning and was very easy to work with. She and her office staff were always professional and cordial. With Stacy’s vast experience, she offered additional details that caused us to think about some matters we hadn’t previously considered. She answered all of our questions thoroughly and carefully explained the affect of each of our decisions. We would highly recommend Stacy without any hesitation.

My wife and I had Stacey redo our family trust. Her service was very personalized, very comprehensive (addressed many important personal & legal issues that 2 previous attorneys never even thought about!), and very efficient! We met with her on 3 different occasions clarifying issues we wanted addressed. Office help is very pleasant and helpful. You can not find a better firm to address your family trust issues!

We had an excellent experience with Shima Kalaei. After reviewing our existing estate documents, she recommended that we «re-​state» our living trust to bring it up-​to-​date with our wishes. She did a very thorough and professional job, including organizing all of our estate planning documents and letting us know what assets to assign to the trust. Ms. Kalaei was very personable, professional, and knowledgeable about estate planning. She had lots of good ideas for updating our trust to accommodate our desires. It was a pleasure working with her and the staff at Denherder & Associates.

Shima Kalaei is an amazing, caring Estate Planning attorney.
She is extremely knowledgeable and will find out answers in a timely manner.
Shima is compassionate and professional.
I highly recommend Shima for any estate planning needs.

I recently had Stacy Denherder review and amend my will and trust. What an amazing company to work with. Very knowledgeable and professional. She was very thorough in preparing them to fulfill my desires and suggested ways to handle some of the issues I had to make the trust work well for my family. Her staff was very helpful also. I highly recommend Denherder & Associates for estate planning.

My wife and I worked with Shima to update our trust and it was a wonderful experience. She definitely knows her stuff. I highly recommend Denherder & Associates!

My wife and I met with Stacy for our much-​needed and overdo estate planning update.
From the beginning of the process and through to its completion, her insight and professionalism helped us immeasurably. We now have the piece of mind of knowing that whatever the future may bring, our family will remain safe and secure.
We cannot thank her and her staff enough.

Denherder and Associates were referred to me by a financial consultant and personal friend. I worked with Shima, and she was knowledgeable and able to guide me through the trust process very graciously. She asked insightful questions and gave me excellent guidance in making sure that my future health decisions and my estate would be handled according to my personal convictions. She asked questions during the planning process that I had not thought of, but that significantly affected the wording of the trust. I would highly recommend Shima personally, as well as the entire staff.

Stacy DenHerder and Shima Kalaei both worked with me setting up my personal and business trusts. Great experience! Both attorneys are professional, knowledgeable and thorough. A real learning experience with ideas and suggestions I’d never considered.
When considering our mortality, it may be easy to procrastinate, however, I’m very glad to have had the help and experience of DenHerder and Associates to get all of my affairs in order. Leaving the executors and other loved ones with easy instructions and related details.
Thank you! Brian Blackwell

Very professional, very thorough and nice people to work with.
Reasonable fee structure. I recommend Denherder without reservation.

We worked with Shima Kalaei to prepare our will and estate plan. We had an excellent experience. Shima was very knowledgeable about estate planning, she had extensive knowledge of a lot of the tax implications regarding gifting, and had a lot of good suggestions for how to structure our plan to work best for our family. She was very professional and enjoyable to work with, which I think is important when discussing such significant matters. We feel very confident that our trust is structured well for our family, and that every angle has been considered and covered. I am glad we invested the money in hiring professionals — Shima thought of a lot of scenarios and asked a lot of questions that we never would have considered if we had attempted to do this on our own.
The legal assistants were also extremely professional, knowledgeable, and just a pleasure to communicate with. I strongly recommend Denherder & Associates and Shima Kalaei.

My wife and I recently worked together with the amazing lawyers and support staff of Denherder and Associates. My wife has a legal background and convinced me of the importance of having an estate plan.
Stacy and Shima took us in, treated us like members of the family, and carefully explained everything to us. We both felt super comfortable with them and like the process was a breeze. I’ve never seen my wife so calm about completing something so important – ever.
If you don’t know how important an estate plan is, I recommend you look into it. Then, give Deherder and Associates a call.

Was referred to them by several friends. Shima was very personable and more importantly, very thorough in helping us with our family trust. We would recommend her to anyone we know that needs to set up a trust!

Discovered Denherder & Associates after our business partners mentioned that they had known Stacy for years and had used her for their family trust. It was time to get an update of our trust so we met with Stacy to accomplish this. She was extremely knowledagble & professional. We felt very comfortable walking through this not always fun process with her. Aftger our 3 appointments and some minor homework we walked out today with our Up To Date «Family Trust». Thank You!!! Her staff is always very friendly and great about calling to remind us about any upcoming appointments.

Shima K helped our family with our legal matter. She was very through, professional, and detailed minded. She did a terrific job going over every single item on our document and explained each of them so someone who’s not well-​versed in legal matters can understand. She’s very trustworthy and made us feel welcome. It’s not a pleasant topic to deal with but she made us feel relaxed and comfortable. I highly recommend Shima and this firm!

I worked with Stacy and Chantelle on a personal trust and I will say they did a fantastic job. I am a business owner so I felt that they really gave me great instruction on creating a trust.
When I did this before years ago it was not very detailed. With Stacy and Chantelle they really dove into the details and I felt I got a complete trust with things I never even thought about. Not only that but they advised me on several area’s that made simplicity out of complexity.
I am a Christian as well so some of the advice was Christian based which also aided me and it helped answer questions that I was unsure of. If I could rate it six stars I would. Also the rest of the admin staff was excellent and really kept things on track with a push here and there to make sure I was doing my homework.

My partner and I were referred to Denherder by a business associate. Stacy walked us through several living trust scenarios, explaining the pros and cons and recommending one that best suited our needs. The planning, discussions, and finalization took place over three different appointments, allowing us enough time to think things through. Stacy and her team were very professional and thorough, patiently answering our various questions. The process was much easier than we anticipated and reasonably priced; we were very satisfied with the advice we received and the outcome. Thanks, Stacy and team!

Thoughtful, thorough, professional estate planning experts!
Stacy Denherder and her team at DenHerder and Associates were recommended to me by several friends and associates, so when it was time for my wife and I to have our estate plan and related documents created we went to her. She is careful to inquire about the «technical» topics as well as personal preferences. If the client has specific spiritual beliefs and considerations, as we do, Stacy is also careful to take those into account.
Stacy also suggests, but does not require, that her clients consider creating what she calls a «Legacy of Love», consisting of letters from the clients to their families which talk from the heart about personal and spiritual matters, so that there’s much more than just property and advance medical directives to have ready when needed. That’s a wonderful suggestion, and an example of her thoroughness.
Highly recommended!

Just updated my trust, will and health directive with Stacy Denherder and it was an easy process. I appreciated all if the consideration from the staff to my attorney to make important decisions for my family. I especially love the extra touch this business does to include personal letters to my loved ones. Very classy! Wonderful experience. Don’t wait on this as we don’t know how soon our family needs this as our final gift to them!

We were referred to Denherder from two different friends (although both had only heard of them, never used them). They did a great job with our living trust in what seemed to be a very complete, transparent process.
They really helped us think through the different scenarios and contingencies, as well as the legal vehicles and tax regulations that we needed to understand.
We definitely plan to go back for any changes to the trust down the road.