Verify the assumption
Every plan begins with the actual assets, obligations, relationships, and risks.
He came to law from accounting
He was trained to find what others overlook.
Before Matt Wozniak drafted a trust or reviewed a purchase agreement, he worked in a discipline where one misplaced figure changes the answer and the work is not finished until every number reconciles. He carried that standard into law.
Read beyond the signature page
Schedules, exhibits, title, beneficiary designations, and implementation decide whether a plan works.
Test what could go wrong
Documents are examined against the conflict, transition, or administration they may need to survive.
Follow through
A signed plan is not complete until it is funded, recorded, communicated, and maintained.
The standard
A plan that is signed but not implemented is not yet a plan.
Planning, administration, and transactions
Counsel for families, owners, and fiduciaries.
Each matter is approached as a working system. The documents, deadlines, assets, and people must all align.
01Estate, Trust, and Legacy Planning
Plans built around the family, the assets, the tax posture, and the business interests involved.
Matt develops wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, durable powers of attorney, patient advocate designations, asset protection strategies, and special needs trusts. Every instrument is explained in plain language so the people responsible for the plan can maintain it.
02Probate and Trust Administration
Steady guidance through inventories, notices, claims, accountings, tax filings, deadlines, and distributions.
Matt carries the administrative sequence for personal representatives, trustees, and beneficiaries, tracking the calendar and helping fiduciaries satisfy their duties while a family is already managing loss.
03Business Transactions and Real Estate
Formation, succession, acquisitions, contracts, sales, leasing, and closing.
He handles business and real estate transactions with the same discipline he applies to trust instruments, because the value of an agreement is often decided by its least examined clause.
04Litigation When Resolution Is Not Available
Probate, trust, contract, and real estate disputes prepared for decision.
Careful drafting prevents many disputes. When it does not, Matt represents clients through negotiation and trial with the record organized around the outcome that matters.
Estate Planning, Wills, and TrustsStructures designed for the specific family, assets, and business interests involved.
Probate and Trust AdministrationGuidance for personal representatives and trustees through every filing and deadline.
Asset Protection and Special Needs PlanningStructures that reduce avoidable exposure and preserve public benefit eligibility.
Business Transactions and SuccessionFormation, purchase and sale, mergers and acquisitions, and ownership transition.
Commercial and Residential Real EstateAcquisitions, sales, leasing, and closings with title and survey detail examined.
Contract Drafting and DisputesAgreements written to be enforced and reviewed for the provisions that decide outcomes.
How he works with clients
Built on attention and follow through.
Matt returns calls, answers email, meets in person, and keeps clients informed at each stage. He answers the question that was asked, then the question the client did not know to ask.
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Credentials
Admissions, education, and languages.
Admissions
State Bar of Michigan, 2014
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Education
Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Juris Doctor, 2012
Wayne State University, Bachelor of Science, Accounting, 2002
Languages
English and Polish
Clients across the United States and Europe