Estate Planning
Wills, trusts, and the documents that make sure your wishes are followed and your family is spared confusion.
Estate Planning · Successions · Elder Law
Protect your legacy and your loved ones.
Smith Law Firm helps Louisiana families and businesses plan for what comes next, the expected and the unexpected. With a foundation in engineering and public service, Scott L. Smith, Jr. brings order and clarity to estate planning, successions, and elder law.
The Attorney
An engineer's order, a counselor's care.
Before he practiced law, Scott L. Smith, Jr. worked as an engineer and an educator, and later served Louisiana as an Assistant Attorney General. That blend of precision, public service, and teaching shapes how he works today.
Estate planning is, at heart, about reducing uncertainty for the people you love. Scott approaches it the way an engineer approaches a structure: understand the whole picture, plan for the stresses to come, and build something that holds. He represents families and small, and mid-size businesses across New Roads, Baton Rouge, and the surrounding parishes.
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Six ways to put your affairs in order.
Successions & Probate
Transferring property to heirs after a death, guided step by step through the Louisiana succession process.
Elder Law
Preparing your estate for long-term care costs, including Medicaid trusts that help preserve what you have built.
Social Security Disability
Representation for disability claims and appeals when you can no longer work and need the benefits you earned.
Personal Injury
Car and truck accident claims, handled with full awareness of Louisiana statutes and filing deadlines.
Powers of Attorney & More
Powers of attorney, living wills, gun trusts, and cell-tower lease review, the practical documents life requires.
Louisiana Estate Planning Checklist
Is your plan complete?
Most families have one or two of these in place, and assume the rest will sort itself out. It rarely does. A short conversation can tell you where the gaps are, and what it would take to close them.
Get Your Checklist Reviewed- A will that reflects your current wishes
- A power of attorney for finances
- A health-care directive (living will)
- A plan for long-term care costs
- Beneficiary designations reviewed
- A succession strategy to avoid probate delays
Offices
Two locations, one standard.
New Roads
2006 False River Drive
New Roads, LA 70760
Serving Pointe Coupee and the river parishes.
Baton Rouge
717 Highlandia Drive, Suite 201
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
Serving Baton Rouge and the surrounding area.
Schedule a consultation
Start with a conversation.
Estate planning works best before it is urgent. Reach out to schedule a consultation at either office, and we will help you map out a plan that fits your family and your assets.
- Phone(225) 718-5334
- Emailscottlsmithlaw@gmail.com
- New Roads2006 False River Drive, LA 70760
- Baton Rouge717 Highlandia Dr, Ste 201, LA 70810
- NoticeThis form does not create an attorney-client relationship.