Estate Planning
Wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and related documents prepared with careful attention to family goals.
Estate Planning • Trust Administration • Probate Guidance
Helping families preserve what they’ve built.
Hobble Creek Law helps Utah families and business owners protect the people, property, and opportunities they have worked hard to build, with clear estate planning, careful drafting, and practical legal counsel.
- Licensed
- Utah, Colorado, Nevada
- Focus
- Estate plans, trusts, probate
- Based in
- Utah County
Planning should feel understandable, not overwhelming.
Attorney Matthew France brings a practical, detail-focused background to estate planning and related counsel. His work includes drafting wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and researching probate, guardianship, trust administration, and business issues.
For familiesFor ownersFor advisors
How We Help
Estate planning counsel built around future-ready decisions.
Probate & Trust Matters
Guidance on probate, guardianship, trust administration, and the practical legal questions that arise after a loved one's death or incapacity.
Planning for Business Owners
Estate planning support for business owners who want their family, ownership interests, real estate, and succession goals aligned.
Professional Collaboration
Responsive support for financial advisors, CPAs, and attorneys who value thoughtful coordination for shared clients.
Why Hobble Creek Law
A broader perspective than document preparation.
Matthew France brings experience in estate planning, civil litigation, appellate advocacy, legislative drafting, bankruptcy, business operations, and regulatory compliance. That background helps clients receive more than forms. They receive practical counsel shaped by how legal documents are drafted, challenged, interpreted, and used in real life.
Legislative drafting experience
Careful, readable documents designed with precision.
Litigation perspective
Planning informed by how disputes actually arise.
Business and family judgment
Counsel that considers assets, relationships, and long-term goals.
The Counsel Standard
Listen carefully. Communicate clearly. Solve practically.
Careful drafting
Legislative drafting experience informs precise, readable documents designed to work when they are needed most.
Calm problem solving
Prior civil litigation and appellate work bring perspective when planning intersects with conflict, uncertainty, or complex facts.
Plain-English guidance
Clients deserve explanations they can act on, not legal vocabulary that makes decisions harder.
Attorney Profile
Matthew France
Attorney | Estate Planning, Probate & Private Counsel
Matthew France is a Utah County attorney focused on estate planning, probate, and related counsel for families and business owners. Earlier in his career, he served as a Deputy Attorney General for the State of Nevada and as Deputy Legislative Counsel to the Nevada Legislature. Today, he brings that same careful drafting, clear communication, and practical judgment to helping families plan for the future.
Current
Paid overflow estate planning services for an established Utah practice.
Public service
Former Nevada Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Legislative Counsel.
Education
Juris Doctor, University of Kansas School of Law. BA, Brigham Young University.
Ready to Plan?
Let’s talk about your family.
Whether you need a will, a revocable trust, help updating an old estate plan, or guidance after the death or incapacity of a loved one, Hobble Creek Law can help you identify the right next step.