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Colleen J. Watters Attorney at Law
Are you looking for an experienced speaker for your next event or meeting?
A dynamic and engaging speaker who speaks on relevant and interesting topics for the attendees?
Colleen is passionate about providing value while offering advice with compassion.
Colleen's goal is to inform the public so they are educated and prepared to make good
choices for themselves and their families. Colleen works toward solutions to assure her
audience and clients wishes are clear and honored, and their loved ones will have the
information needed during stressful and challenging events that life sometimes presents.
Speaking Topics:
Estate Planning is for Everyone - Assure your wishes are clear and honored
Explore the reasons why everyone needs an estate plan in place. Once we become adults, an Estate Plan is necessary to assure a trusted individual is designated to assist us should the need arise. Think of your Estate Plan as insurance. You wouldn’t drive a car or own a home without having an insurance plan in place “just in case” something bad happens. Your Estate Plan serves the same function.
Advanced Healthcare Directives & Durable Powers of Attorney: How do they work?
Learn information on the differences between these documents; and how each document works when you become incapacitated or have passed away.
Aging Parents, How to Assure Proper Care and Avoid Pitfalls
Tips and resources for those with aging parents. Caring for your aging loved ones is much easier with the right documents in place. These documents must be signed while they are able to understand the contents & purpose of each document. Once someone has a dementia diagnosis the capacity to sign legal documents can diminish rapidly.
Lifetime Planning for Your Pets
Learn how to make sure your pets are cared for if you are no longer able to care for them.
The California Probate Code allows for the creation of a Trust for the care of an animal. Understand whether you need a Trust, or if provisions can be made in your Will. Work with an attorney to ensure your pet will continue to have a quality life.
Including Charitable Giving in Your Estate Plan
Your charitable intentions must be clearly stated for your philanthropic legacy to be realized. This can be accomplished through beneficiary designations on your retirement accounts, life insurance, investment accounts, etc. or by executing a Trust with your charitable gifts clearly stated within the document. Learn when a beneficiary designation is more appropriate than making a gift through your estate planning documents.
Key Note Presentations and/or Custom Workshops
Other topics available, please contact me for more information.
Estate Planning is for Everyone - Assure your wishes are clear and honored
Explore the reasons why everyone needs an estate plan in place. Once we become adults, an Estate Plan is necessary to assure a trusted individual is designated to assist us should the need arise. Think of your Estate Plan as insurance. You wouldn’t drive a car or own a home without having an insurance plan in place “just in case” something bad happens. Your Estate Plan serves the same function.
Advanced Healthcare Directives & Durable Powers of Attorney: How do they work?
Learn information on the differences between these documents; and how each document works when you become incapacitated or have passed away.
- Do you want to be placed on Life Support?
- Do you wish to be provided Pain Relief?
- How do you feel about donation of organs?
- Disposition of remains, i.e., funeral and cremation/burial arrangements
- (Name/Location of Cemetery or Funeral Home; is plot prepaid?)
- When is the right time to execute a POLST (Physicians Order for Life Sustaining Treatment) form?
Aging Parents, How to Assure Proper Care and Avoid Pitfalls
Tips and resources for those with aging parents. Caring for your aging loved ones is much easier with the right documents in place. These documents must be signed while they are able to understand the contents & purpose of each document. Once someone has a dementia diagnosis the capacity to sign legal documents can diminish rapidly.
Lifetime Planning for Your Pets
Learn how to make sure your pets are cared for if you are no longer able to care for them.
The California Probate Code allows for the creation of a Trust for the care of an animal. Understand whether you need a Trust, or if provisions can be made in your Will. Work with an attorney to ensure your pet will continue to have a quality life.
Including Charitable Giving in Your Estate Plan
Your charitable intentions must be clearly stated for your philanthropic legacy to be realized. This can be accomplished through beneficiary designations on your retirement accounts, life insurance, investment accounts, etc. or by executing a Trust with your charitable gifts clearly stated within the document. Learn when a beneficiary designation is more appropriate than making a gift through your estate planning documents.
Key Note Presentations and/or Custom Workshops
Other topics available, please contact me for more information.
Speaking Experience
Colleen's speaking experience includes a wide variety of groups and various venues, including the following: networking groups, business groups, senior center groups, workshops, health fairs, gerontology conferences, the "What If Conference", animal welfare organizations, local charities, associations and other groups.
Contact Colleen for more detailed information about her speaking experience. (916) 225.3570 or [email protected]
Colleen's speaking experience includes a wide variety of groups and various venues, including the following: networking groups, business groups, senior center groups, workshops, health fairs, gerontology conferences, the "What If Conference", animal welfare organizations, local charities, associations and other groups.
Contact Colleen for more detailed information about her speaking experience. (916) 225.3570 or [email protected]
Speaking Testimonials
"I met Colleen Watters at a workshop for a group of people that were interested in hearing about the benefits of drawing up a trust and will. Colleen was wonderful at explaining the benefits of both wills and trusts and the differences between them. Also she explained the benefits of having a medical durable power of attorney that spelled out your wishes at the end of your life. Colleen also explained what happens if you die intestate and the courts need to figure out what happens to your estate. ...
Colleen always makes you feel comfortable with her. She talks with you as if you are a friend and not a client. Colleen told me if I have any questions in the future about my will or need to make changes it is an easy thing to do and she can take care of it.
Thank You again Colleen, you made me more comfortable with my life today."
-John Ramonda
"Colleen readily accepted my invitation to speak to our diverse group of LGBT elders about estate planning, promising to find answers if questions came up that she wasn't sure about, concerning LGBT law. The group immediately felt at ease with her relaxed, easily approachable style, some have already met with her to review their wills and trusts. I appreciate Colleen's honest openness and the comfort with which she can truly meet people where they are, in making difficult decisions."
- Cathy Perry ~ Wisdom Project = LGBT Elders
"Colleen spoke to our Rotary Club about the importance of estate planning, and how a good plan is important financial and personal planning. She took the mystery out of the process and made it an easily understandable necessity."
– Bill Hambrick - Rotary Club of Arden Arcade, President
"Those of us in rescue spend so much time saving and caring for others, the thought of our own mortality rarely crosses our minds. Providing for our own pets, should the unthinkable happen, is a subject every pet owner should discuss. Colleen's presentation was informative, fun, and truly eye opening!"
–Christina White
ABCDT Certified Dog Trainer
Volunteer/Board Member - Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue
"I met Colleen Watters at a workshop for a group of people that were interested in hearing about the benefits of drawing up a trust and will. Colleen was wonderful at explaining the benefits of both wills and trusts and the differences between them. Also she explained the benefits of having a medical durable power of attorney that spelled out your wishes at the end of your life. Colleen also explained what happens if you die intestate and the courts need to figure out what happens to your estate. ...
Colleen always makes you feel comfortable with her. She talks with you as if you are a friend and not a client. Colleen told me if I have any questions in the future about my will or need to make changes it is an easy thing to do and she can take care of it.
Thank You again Colleen, you made me more comfortable with my life today."
-John Ramonda
"Colleen readily accepted my invitation to speak to our diverse group of LGBT elders about estate planning, promising to find answers if questions came up that she wasn't sure about, concerning LGBT law. The group immediately felt at ease with her relaxed, easily approachable style, some have already met with her to review their wills and trusts. I appreciate Colleen's honest openness and the comfort with which she can truly meet people where they are, in making difficult decisions."
- Cathy Perry ~ Wisdom Project = LGBT Elders
"Colleen spoke to our Rotary Club about the importance of estate planning, and how a good plan is important financial and personal planning. She took the mystery out of the process and made it an easily understandable necessity."
– Bill Hambrick - Rotary Club of Arden Arcade, President
"Those of us in rescue spend so much time saving and caring for others, the thought of our own mortality rarely crosses our minds. Providing for our own pets, should the unthinkable happen, is a subject every pet owner should discuss. Colleen's presentation was informative, fun, and truly eye opening!"
–Christina White
ABCDT Certified Dog Trainer
Volunteer/Board Member - Homeward Bound Golden Retriever Rescue
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