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A river winding past green irrigated fields and dry golden hills toward distant mountains

Wills, trusts and elder law in the Yakima Valley

Plant it now. They'll pick it later.

A good plan is like an orchard: you put it in the ground for the people who come after you. I'm Ardith Wenstrom, a valley lawyer and a planner myself, and I meet families in Yakima, Ellensburg and Sunnyside, or at your own kitchen table.

Book a first meetingFind your nearest office

Where to find me

Three tables up and down the valley

Yakima three days a week, Ellensburg on Tuesdays and Sunnyside on Thursdays. The same lawyer and the same files at each, so come to whichever is closest.

What I do

The work, row by row

Most families need one of these three. Over twenty years, many need all of them.

  • Planting

    Wills and trusts

    A will or a living trust, powers of attorney and a health care directive, written for the family you actually have.

    About wills and trusts
  • Tending

    Long-term care

    Medicaid planning, powers of attorney signed while a parent still can, and guardianship when nobody planned.

    About long-term care planning
  • Picking

    Probate

    When a parent has died, I help the person named in the will gather what's there, pay what's owed and pass on the rest.

    About probate

How a plan grows

Planted, grafted, tended, picked

Every plan I write goes through the same four seasons. The orchard is the easy part to picture; the paperwork follows it.

See how it works
A younger woman with a laptop stands at a kitchen table beside a smiling older woman
Planting: we talk it through at a table, yours or mine
Two people at a table, one signing a page beside a short stack of papers
Grafting: your wishes joined to the right papers
A woman in overalls and an older man in a checked shirt talk in a yard under a flowering tree, holding garden tools
Tending: a look every few years, or when life changes
Three generations of a family sit and stand on the white front steps of a house hung with flower baskets
Picking: your family knows what to do, and where it all is

Your lawyer

I've sat on your side of the table

  • Ardith Wenstrom smiling outdoors in the sun, in a plaid winter jacket with the collar turned up

    Ardith Wenstrom

    Attorney, estate planning and elder law

    I was the grown daughter first, driving out to my dad's place in Selah every evening and learning what a missing power of attorney costs a family. Later my husband and I did our own plan at our kitchen table. Now I sit down with valley families who are where we were.

More about me

From families in the valley

What it was like, in their words

“Mom's papers had lived in a shoebox for thirty years. Ardith drove out to Tieton, sat with her for two hours and left with everything we needed to sign the next week.”

Renée P.Tieton, for her mother

“We came in expecting a speech about trusts. We left with a simple will each, two powers of attorney and a short list of what to tell our kids.”

Dale and Joan R.Selah

“Dad died with a house in Grandview and nobody knew where the deed was. She found it, filed what had to be filed and called me back every single time.”

Luis M.Sunnyside

Shared with permission. Every family's situation is different, and these don't predict the result in yours.

Plant it this season

Call or write and tell me a little. I'll say what your family needs, which office is closest and what it will cost, before you decide anything.

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