About Cain, Cain & Janik


Cain, Cain & Janik have developed a unique approach to estate planning called the Estate Planners for Life™ process.  This unique process helps create purposeful and lasting legacies that include the client’s voice, vision, faith and values in their estate plans without all of the typical legalese of wills and trusts.  Although estate planning can be a complex subject, Cain, Cain & Janik’s process makes estate planning easy to understand, organized, and cost effective. The law firm is education-focused.  At Cain, Cain & Janik, they tell each client, “If you teach us about your family; we’ll teach you about the law.”  Together, they develop a one-of-a-kind plan that is customized and designed to meet the individual goals and needs of the client and provide for the people they love and the causes they support.    Cain, Cain & Janik takes special pleasure in establishing life-long relationships with their clients, their client’s helpers, and their client’s families. 

Cain, Cain & Janik, Estate Planners for Life™ believes in creating estate plans that really work and feels strongly that estate planning is a process and not an event.  Estate plans must be maintained and updated because of changes in the law, the tax system, the family, mobility of family helpers, and Cain, Cain & Janik’s own constantly evolving methods for addressing client’s issues.  The Estate Planners for Life™ process provides an efficient and cost-effective framework for clients to maintain and update their estate plans so that the plan provides for the client and the client’s anticipated beneficiaries as it was intended.

Cain, Cain & Janik clients come from all vocations.  They range from business owners, to farmers and ranchers, to educators and other professionals.  They are young families, they are reaching retirement, and they are retired.  All have great wealth that goes far beyond their monetary wealth and their property.  The Estate Planners for Life™ process ensures that the client’s vision, faith and principles are communicated and passed to the next generation along with their money and property.


 It’s Not About Documents – It’s About Results!  The key to proper estate planning is clear, comprehensive, customized instructions for your own care and that of your loved ones.  These instructions can be included in a will, a trust, and in several other related documents.  We find that most of our clients are best served with a combination of these tools, backed up by the Three Step Strategy™.

Step 1:  DEVELOP Your Plan with Counseling Oriented Planning Partners (as opposed to a word processing, document-oriented attorney)

               We fear that much of what passes for estate planning in this country is little more than word processing!  We don’t believe you should pay a licensed professional to do word processing.  Their value is in their counsel and advice, based on knowledge, wisdom, and experience.  If word processing is all you want, you may as well do it yourself!  But if you want an estate plan that works, seek good counseling from an attorney who is willing to work closely with other professionals such as your financial advisor and accountant.


Step 2:  COMMIT  Yourself and Your Family to a Continuing Maintenance and Education Program.

               An estate plan faces a myriad of changes.  First, there is constant change in your personal, family, and financial situation.  Secondly, there is constant change in both tax law and non-tax law that impacts your estate plan.  Third, there is constant change in your attorney’s experience and expertise.  Your professional advisors are continually improving through ongoing education and collected experience.

               Since everything constantly changes, you cannot expect a plan to accomplish what it was intended to accomplish if it is never updated.  The costs of failing to update are typically far greater than the costs of keeping your plan current.

Step 3:  SECURE Appropriate Assistance for You and Your Family to Transfer Your Wisdom Along with Your Wealth.

               It’s one thing to pass your wealth to the next generation.  It’s a different thing to pass it along in an orderly and protected manner.  And it’s yet another thing to pass along your wisdom.  A good estate plan will accomplish all three things.

               By working with a team of professionals, your heirs will be able to receive their inheritance in a form that is protected from creditors and predators.  In addition, you can structure your estate plan to provide in-depth instructions or commentary on those things that you believe are important for those heirs to know and do.

Team Approach

               Creating an estate plan is not difficult, but it does require the involvement of all your professional advisors; your attorney, your accountant, and your financial and insurance advisors.  If all the professionals are included in the planning, you are much more likely to have a plan that works.  If not, you may receive conflicting advice that leads to confusion and inaction.

               We suggest that you allow us to involve your other advisors in your planning, and keep them apprised of steps you are taking.  That way everyone is fully informed and has a chance to offer their particular expertise to the process.

 


Core Values: P-R-I-D-E

Pride: in our work, our reputation and our “work” home;
Relationship: defined by a feeling of fellowship because of common attitudes, interests and goals between our team, our Planning Partners and our clients;
Integrity:  Say what we do: Do what we say!
Dedication: to better lives for our team, our client families, and our Planning Partners; and
Education:  our team strives for “Kaizen” or continuous improvement in ourselves, our firm and our processes.  Through education, “Cain, Cain & Janik helps others help themselves”. 


Cain, Cain & Janik’s own legacy.

Just like you, we have our own story that is forming our legacy. We endeavor to use our legal expertise to take a new approach to estate planning that serves the long-term needs of our clients. This desire came from our own experiences in helping our families with their estate plans. Thousands of dollars later, they were given a thick set of papers that we quickly realized would be outdated within months. We knew there had to be a better way.

After a little research, Marty and Tamara discovered the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys through which our firm has been trained to approach estate planning as a dynamic and life-long process that centers around each individual’s unique story. We are excited to use our decades of legal education and experience along with our specialized training in estate planning and legacy preservation to help you make the plans needed to ensure your legacy lives on.

 

Contact Us

tel 405-364-2246
fax 405-360-9675
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located at Main and Mercedes
1770 West Main St., Norman, OK


Our Team

Marty G. Cain, J.D.

Marty G. Cain was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma and grew up in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He attended the University of Oklahoma where he studied Public Administration before graduating from the College of Law in 1991. He has practiced law in the Oklahoma city and Norman area since 1991. Read More...

 

Tamara Beam Cain, J.D.

Tamara Beam Cain grew up in Okeene, Oklahoma. She attended Oklahoma State University and attained her BS in Family Relations and Child Development. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma, College of Law in 1991. Tamara has practiced law in the Oklahoma City and Norman area since 1991. Read More...

 

Mitch B. Janik, J.D.

Mitch B. Janik

Mitch grew up in the Northwest Oklahoma City area, where he has called home since 1979 and currently lives with his wife Katie and son Carson.  Having known Marty and Tammy for many years, he joined them in 2010 to help build the unique Estate Planners for Life(TM) estate planning experience for clients…   Read More...

 

Kelli Thompson

Kelli is our Funding Coordinator and is an integral part of our team as she is involved in some way with every process and procedure in our firm.  Within weeks of joining our team, Kelli has made substantial improvements to "Step 1" of our 3-Step Strategy™ of Estate Planning.  Her ability to process information and assist clients as they navigate the "development" portion of our Estate Planners for Life™ Program is valued and highly appreciated by our clients and our entire team!   Kelli is from Newkirk, Oklahoma and now lives in Norman with her Husband Ben and their two sons, Trey and Blake.  

Cynthia George, Ph.D.

Cynthia is the Client Services Coordinator and the first voice our clients speak to when they call. She graduated from Norman High and holds two degrees from OU. Prior to taking a leave of absence from her career to care for her invalid mother, Cynthia was a university professor and, more recently, an award-winning video producer/director for the US Postal Service.