Keith Lyman

Keith R. Lyman is an attorney with more than four decades of experience helping individuals and families navigate important legal and financial decisions. Licensed to practice law in Arizona, Kansas, and Indiana, he has spent much of his career working with clients on estate planning, probate, trusts, and related matters involving the protection and transfer of family assets. Today, Keith practices in the Phoenix, Arizona, area, where his work focuses on helping clients create estate plans that reflect not simply what they own, but what they want to accomplish for themselves and the people they care about. His experience includes wills and trusts, powers of attorney, health-care planning, probate and estate administration, trust planning, and the many practical questions that arise when families prepare for incapacity or the transfer of assets from one generation to the next. Over the course of his career, Keith has seen that one of the greatest obstacles to good estate planning is not necessarily the law itself. It is the confusion surrounding it. Legal terminology, financial concepts, tax considerations, and conflicting advice can make people postpone decisions they know they should make. His approach to writing is therefore much the same as his approach to working with clients: explain the complicated parts without unnecessarily making them complicated. Keith writes for people who want to understand their choices rather than simply be told what documents to sign. His estate-planning books are designed to give readers the background and practical knowledge they need to ask better questions, recognize potential problems, and make more informed decisions about their own planning. After more than forty years in the legal profession, he remains convinced that good estate planning is ultimately about much more than documents. It is about providing direction, protecting the people who matter to us, and making difficult circumstances a little easier for those we leave behind.