Bassett Murray Law Group, PLLC

Bassett Murray Law Group has been working with Michigan families for more than thirty years, led by managing partners Jane A. Bassett and Amanda N. Murray from Ann Arbor, with a Petoskey office by appointment.

The practice covers estate planning, wills and trusts including special needs trusts, advance directives and powers of attorney, probate and trust administration, guardianships and conservatorships, probate litigation, elder law and Medicaid planning, disability benefits and fiduciary services, alongside adoption and assisted reproduction work.

The LGBTQIA+ practice is named rather than implied. The firm states that if you are a transgender person navigating a name change, a change of gender marker, or other gender specific legal issues, it can help. Michigan has no statute setting out a gender marker change procedure the way some states do, so this is work that rewards a firm that has done it before. Assisted reproduction and second-parent adoption sit in the same practice, which is where a non-biological parent's legal relationship to their child is actually secured rather than assumed.

Jane Bassett has counseled LGBTQ+ clients for over twenty years, and the firm works as a team rather than assigning a file to one desk.