Summary of Angela's Story: Compassionate, Urgent Estate Planning in Florida:

  • Angela felt a deep need to protect her family before undergoing serious spinal surgery.
  • Attorney Michelle Lianzo expedited Angela’s estate planning with empathy, clarity, and urgency.
  • Angela and Lyndon now have peace of mind, knowing their legacy plan will benefit future generations.

Angela's Estate Planning Experience with DHC Law

Having lost two siblings and facing a major spinal surgery, Angela felt a deep urgency to protect her loved ones. With five children and six grandchildren, she knew she couldn’t move forward without protecting her family's future. That urgency led her to DHC, the long-time law firm of her father, whom he trusted. From the moment she called, attorney Michelle Lianzo and estate planning paralegal April made Angela feel seen and supported. They expedited every step, ensuring her estate plan was complete before surgery. What stood out wasn’t just their efficiency—it was the compassion. Angela didn’t feel like a client; she felt like family. Michelle explained every document clearly, making sure Angela, a teacher with no legal background, understood and felt confident in every decision. Today, Angela and her husband Lyndon feel a deep sense of comfort knowing their legacy is secured—and that their children and grandchildren are better prepared for the future. As Lyndon put it, “Our children are going to thank us later.”

Transcript:

Angela: I was having surgery on my neck by my spinal cord, and I had two siblings pass away. And it really, when that happens to you, you have a very sense of your own mortality. Bad things can happen. And I knew that I had five kids and six grandkids at that time. I did not want to go through with that surgery without everything being in its place. I knew that I needed to protect our assets and my children and my husband, and so we just chose to kind of move forward and make sure that we had all of the arrangements done prior to going into surgery. I remember being younger, quite a bit younger, and driving in the car and going down the street, and my dad would tell me if anything ever happened to me, that's the law firm that you would need to go to.

I don't feel like a client to them. I feel like family.

What was beautiful about working with you all and working with [attorney] Michelle [Lianzo] in particular is that she knew that I was under the gun as far as going into surgery. It was a few weeks away. Not only did she get me in very soon after I made the call, but she got everything done and filed and complete prior to me going into that surgery, which actually, not to be funny or mushy, but it really brought me to tears with [estate planning paralegal] April and Michelle. What amazes me the most is the relationship that I have. I don't feel like a client to them. I feel like family. I know that April's had a connection with my father. She went to Seminole Middle [School], that's where my Dad taught. But that relationship that they had has moved over to us, right?

And Michelle, from the first time I met her, it felt like coming home; I felt like she was family. I felt like she was in my corner. So I don't look at it like she's my attorney, right? Even though I know that she is right, I feel like she's my friend. I feel like she's somebody I can trust. I think she makes sound decisions. And when I was going through the process with her, she walked through every document, every question, every decision we made in a way that I had clarity because I'm not a lawyer, I'm a teacher. She made sure that I understood what I was doing. She didn't bog us down with that legal jargon. She explained everything to me in a way that I understood, so that way I could make the best decisions for him and our kids and our grandkids. And it's been really nice because we got the things that we wanted to have done, and now we're at a level of, there's comfort. There's comfort. Our

Lyndon: Children's going to thank us later. It is just like we feel privileged that her father was wise enough to set this up to begin with. So I think that's where, I mean, we communicate with our own children what's expected and what's going to go on, and they understand the process now, and they're probably going to be here too sometime, at some point in their life.

Angela: In the near future, it's going to be generational!

Lyndon and Angela