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Merritt & BellAttorneys at Law · Wills, Trusts & Estates · Richmond, Virginia
M&B

Where we practice

One office. Ten courthouses' worth of ground.

Estate law is local in ways that surprise people — each Circuit Court clerk has a counter, each Commissioner of Accounts has preferences, and each community has its own version of the family land. These are ours.

Richmond

City of Richmond

Our office is on West Franklin Street, a short walk from Monument Avenue, and the probate division at the John Marshall Courts Building knows our paperwork on sight.

Planning in Richmond

Henrico

Henrico County

More of our clients live in Henrico than anywhere else, from the brick colonials off Libbie and Grove to Lakeside and the East End. Estates qualify at the Circuit Court on Parham Road.

Planning in Henrico

Chesterfield

Chesterfield County

South of the James, planned communities and old family land in equal measure: Brandermill and Woodlake households, and Route 10 acreage that has been meaning to get surveyed since the Eisenhower administration.

Planning in Chesterfield

Midlothian

Chesterfield County

Coal country before it was cul-de-sac country, and the deeds remember. Most Midlothian work is the modern kind, though: dual-income households with good incomes, better retirement accounts, and no documents at all.

Planning in Midlothian

Glen Allen

Henrico County

Innsbrook professionals, Capital One and Dominion retirees, engineers with stock-plan statements they have never quite decoded. Glen Allen clients arrive organized and want the mechanics explained.

Planning in Glen Allen

Short Pump

Henrico County

First-generation wealth west of Route 288: physicians, dual-career couples, and business owners whose balance sheets outran their paperwork somewhere around 2015. We put the paperwork back in front.

Planning in Short Pump

Mechanicsville

Hanover County

Three-generation planning: grandparents on the family land off Cold Harbor Road, their children in Milestone or Kings Charter, and everyone finally in one room deciding what happens to the back forty acres.

Planning in Mechanicsville

Bon Air

Chesterfield County

The Victorian cottages off Buford Road hold some of the longest-tenured homeowners in the metro. Planning here is about the house: step-up strategy, TOD deeds, and the delicate mathematics of one house among three children.

Planning in Bon Air

Powhatan

Powhatan County

Horse farms off Route 13, timber acreage, and clients who measure wealth in fence line. Farm estates fail by partition suit; preventing that outcome is specific, unglamorous drafting, and we do it often.

Planning in Powhatan

Hanover

Hanover County

From Ashland's railroad-town front porches to the farm country around Montpelier and Beaverdam: a county where clients still bring pound cake to signing meetings, and where the courthouse green makes qualification feel properly ceremonial.

Planning in Hanover

Outside these ten? We regularly take matters across central Virginia when the fit is right — telephone the office at (804) 555-0158 and ask.

Your courthouse is probably on our list.

And if mobility is the obstacle, it never needs to be — we make house calls across the metro, porch signings included.

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