Our work starts with you.
Building wealth and ensuring smooth waters for your family are not easy tasks: they take hard work, ingenuity, patience, and sound advice. Similarly, keeping wealth, enhancing it, and ensuring that it is transferred in a sensible, tax-advantaged way require skilled navigation. Macatawa Law PLC offers a distinctive blend of experienced family office services, fiduciary services as trustee, and legal services that are custom-designed to help you, your family, and your business chart a course for success.
Our Services
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Family Office Services
A family office offers affluent individuals, families and business owners a broad array of outsourced solutions. When properly structured and managed, a family office offers customized personal financial services; professional trusteeship; fiduciary investment management; and investment manager oversight. Our family office services include integrated legal services; estate and wealth transfer planning; private foundation management; charitable gift planning; and purchase, construction and management of homes, investment real estate, and other assets.
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Fiduciary Services as Trustee
Choosing an effective trustee to look after your resources, oversee your investments as a fiduciary, and carry out your wishes, is one of the most critical aspects of a good estate and wealth management plan. After all, this is the person or firm who will assist you with the management of your assets now and provide for the proper administration of your trust assets after you are gone. We can help you accomplish your goals by serving as trustee for you and your beneficiaries. We always serve as a fiduciary, with your best interests as our guide.
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Estate Planning
Estate planning is a personal, on-going process. It evolves as you accumulate wealth and as your family grows and matures. As a result, we often develop a long-term relationship with our clients and their families. We work closely with you to identify and achieve your personal, family, and charitable goals, from protecting and transferring family wealth to preserving family businesses and other assets, all while minimizing administrative costs and taxes.
About Us
Erik D. Spykman, Attorney
Rick Spykman provides counsel and advice at the intersection of legal, business and family matters. Trusted by affluent individuals, families and business owners, he listens and then provides sound counsel to help clients move forward with confidence.
The quality of Rick’s guidance stems from deep experience in real estate, business transactions, corporate formation and counsel, and estate/trust planning, that helps him to anticipate and resolve the issues that often arise for individuals, families, and businesses. Despite the diversity of his practice, his approach is remarkably consistent: Rick views the practice of law as one in which the people are the subject matter, not the wills or trusts, assets, agreements or transactions.
Rick is a graduate of Calvin University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is rated AV “Preeminent” and endorsed for “High Ethical Standing” by Martindale-Hubbell, a leading peer review survey, and is licensed to practice law in Indiana and Michigan.
Rick has a long history of leadership and service with church, education, professional and community organizations. He now serves as a member of the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee of Barnabas Foundation, a $720 million faith-based philanthropic organization.
Rick enjoys boating (having completed the 6000+ mile America’s Great Loop with his wife Rhonda), active outdoor activities, reading, and traveling with family and friends.
Brenda S. Thomas, Trust Administrator
Brenda Thomas is a Trust Administrator and paralegal focusing on trust and estate administration. Brenda has over forty years of experience working in trust administration and operations and plays a lead role in providing exceptional fiduciary services to beneficiaries of trusts, estates, and other clients.
Brenda works closely with trust grantors and beneficiaries, handling and processing distributions, bill payments, collecting and transferring assets, record keeping, communications, and other fiduciary services tasks.
Brenda enjoys building relationships with clients and their families and assisting them with their long term plans.
Contact us.
Michigan
P.O. Box 251 Macatawa, MI 49434
765-414-2490
Indiana
P.O. Box 2024 West Lafayette, IN 47996
765-427-4347