Lane & Waterman attorneys, several of whom are also certified public accountants, design individualized estate plans to address the personal needs of individuals, family and business owners. The firm utilizes all types of wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance health care directives and other estate planning vehicles to serve clients' goals, providing for business succession plans when appropriate, while minimizing taxes.
Each estate plan is created by one or more of a team of attorneys and is customized to the unique desires of each client, whether that person's estate is modest or worth millions of dollars.
Lane & Waterman also assists and guides individual clients, banks and trust companies in the administration of estates, trusts, guardianships and conservatorships.
Lane & Waterman partners have been recognized by their peers as outstanding in their fields of practice. They often address local organizations on legal issues. The firm’s senior trusts and estate partner, David Dettmann, has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of trusts and estates law. Lane & Waterman is one of a handful of Iowa firms with partner, David Dettmann, honored as a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a select professional association in whose members are invited only by nomination by other Fellows on the basis of professional reputation.