Our work starts with you.
Building wealth and ensuring smooth waters for your family are not easy tasks: they take hard work, ingenuity, patience, and sound advice. Similarly, keeping wealth, enhancing it, and ensuring that it is transferred in a sensible, tax-advantaged way require skilled navigation. Macatawa Law PLC offers a distinctive blend of experienced family office services, fiduciary services as trustee, and legal services that are custom-designed to help you, your family, and your business chart a course for success.
About Us
Erik D. Spykman, Attorney
Rick Spykman provides counsel and advice at the intersection of legal, business and family matters. Trusted by affluent individuals, families and business owners, he listens and then provides sound counsel to help clients move forward with confidence.
The quality of Rick’s guidance stems from deep experience in real estate, business transactions, corporate formation and counsel, and estate/trust planning, that helps him to anticipate and resolve the issues that often arise for individuals, families, and businesses.
Rick is a graduate of Calvin University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is rated AV “Preeminent” and endorsed for “High Ethical Standing” by Martindale-Hubbell, a leading peer review survey, and is licensed to practice law in Indiana and Michigan.
Rick has a long history of leadership and service with church, educational, professional and community organizations. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee of Barnabas Foundation, a $700+ million faith-based philanthropic organization.
Rick enjoys long-distance boating, active outdoor activities, reading, and traveling with family and friends.
Brenda S. Thomas, Trust Administrator
Brenda Thomas is a Trust Administrator and paralegal focusing on trust and estate administration. Brenda has over forty years of experience working in trust administration and operations and plays a lead role in providing exceptional fiduciary services to beneficiaries of trusts, estates, and other clients.
Brenda works closely with trust grantors and beneficiaries, handling and processing distributions, bill payments, collecting and transferring assets, record keeping, communications, and other fiduciary services tasks.
Brenda enjoys building relationships with clients and their families and assisting them with their long term plans.
Contact us.
Michigan
P.O. Box 251 Macatawa, MI 49434
765-414-2490
Indiana
P.O. Box 2024 West Lafayette, IN 47996
765-427-4347