Melissa C. Pennuto Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Warrenville, Illinois

Wheaton, Illinois

Wheaton, Il

I design and implement custom estate plans for individuals, executives, and business owners with legacies both large and small. My technique focuses on minimizing federal and state estate, gift, generation-skipping, and income taxation, as well as forward planning for future generations. My estate plans may include simple Wills, Revocable Trusts, and Powers of Attorney, or may grow in complexity to Supplemental Needs Trusts, Qualified Personal Residence Trusts, Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts, Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts, Charitable Remainder Trusts, Family Limited Partnerships, and business succession plans.I also represent individuals and organizations: in initiating and managing guardianships for minor children and disabled adults; in real estate transfer and sales transactions; in veterans pension, aid & assistance, and disability benefits; in strategic asset preservation planning; in Medicaid qualifications and benefits entitlement; and in reviewing resident agreements for long-term care facilities.

Wheaton, Illinois

Estate Administration, Estate Planning, & Elder Law

Chicago, Illinois

- Research appellate case law rising from USERRA.

Greater Chicago Area

Manage and oversee clinical students, monitoring case progress and providing guidance to students. Independently manage and develop veterans’ benefit appeals cases, conduct research regarding claim viability, and forward cases to pro bono attorneys. Assisted veterans in petty offense and specialty court cases in the Northern District of Illinois and Cook County Criminal Courts.

John Marshall Law School

Independently manage and develop veterans’ benefit appeals cases, conduct research regarding claim viability, and forward cases to pro bono attorneys. Assist veterans in petty offense and specialty court cases in the Northern District of Illinois and Cook County Criminal Courts

Elder Law, Probate, Guardianship, Medicaid/Public Assistance Law, Wills, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Asset Conservation, Real Estate.

Real Estate, Wills, Powers of Attorney

Real Estate, Wills, Powers of Attorney, Traffic, Business license application/registration.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Elder Law

Activities and Societies: Veterans Legal Support Center & Clinic, Elder Law Society

Ba, Legal Studies And Political Science

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity for Women, Tuesday Night Fellowship, Wildkatz Klezmer Ensemble, SAI Choir.

Diploma, General

Activities and Societies: Symphonic Band, Big Band, Teens Against Tobacco Use, Reality Check, National Honors Society, Student Council.