Falls Township is a 25-square-mile municipality in lower Bucks County with roughly 34,000 residents and the largest industrial footprint of any township in the county. It includes portions of the Levittown community (the Falls section), Fairless Hills, Fallsington, and the former US Steel Fairless Works site, now redeveloped as the Keystone Industrial Port Complex. The township sits in the Pennsbury School District (most of it) and the Morrisville Borough School District (a small western section) and runs the corridor between I-95, Route 13, and the Delaware River. Sesame Place is here. So is most of the warehouse and distribution stock that drives Bucks County's logistics economy. The legal mix that follows is unique: long-time Levittown homeowners on one side, commercial leases and zoning disputes on the other.
Falls Township families benefit from the same estate planning fundamentals as any Bucks County community. A complete estate plan starts with a will, durable financial power of attorney, healthcare power of attorney with living will, and often a revocable living trust. For homeowners, the revocable living trust is especially valuable because it allows your home and other assets to pass directly to your beneficiaries after your death without going through probate in the Register of Wills.
Many Falls Township residents have lived in their homes for decades and have significant equity. As you age, questions arise: Does my estate go through probate? How long does it take? Who manages my financial and healthcare decisions if I become unable? The answers depend on your specific situation, assets, and family structure. Powers of attorney are especially important because they allow someone you trust to act on your behalf immediately if you become incapacitated, avoiding court intervention.
Falls Township's growing commercial sector means local business owners and operators frequently need legal advice on contract disputes, vendor agreements, property concerns, and liability issues. If you operate a business in the industrial corridor or any commercial enterprise within Falls Township, you need an attorney who understands local business operations and Bucks County commercial law.
Business owners also need personal estate plans that account for their business interests. If you own a business and want it to pass to family members or a successor, your will and possibly a buy-sell agreement or succession plan must address what happens. Similarly, if you have key person insurance or partners, your estate plan should coordinate with those arrangements so that your family's inheritance and your business's continuity are both protected.
For estate planning, probate, real estate, or business law in Falls Township, see our estate planning attorney serving Falls Township and our divorce services for families in transition. Call 215-949-0888 for a free consultation. I serve both residential and commercial clients throughout the area.
Falls Township's industrial corridor along Route 13 and the former US Steel site brings a steady stream of land-use questions: site plan approvals, conditional use applications, variances from the Falls Township Zoning Hearing Board, and commercial lease disputes between landlords and warehouse tenants. The residential side has different concerns. Old Levittown deeds, originally part of the Levitt & Sons restrictions from the 1950s, occasionally surface during closings and have to be reconciled with current zoning. Falls Township's tax assessment runs on the same 1972 base year as the rest of Bucks County, and appeals go to the Bucks County Board of Assessment Appeals in Doylestown. Realty transfer tax in Falls Township is 2% total (1% state plus 1% combined municipal and school district), the standard PA split.
Tullytown Borough is a small (~1,900 residents) Delaware River borough at the southeast corner of Falls Township, with a long industrial history tied to the steel and quarry operations along the river. Tullytown's housing stock is older and lower-density than the Levittown sections nearby, and the legal mix runs heavily to residential closings, small probates, and the occasional commercial matter tied to the riverfront industrial parcels. Tullytown estates are filed at the Bucks County Register of Wills in Doylestown like any other Bucks County estate, with the same 4.5% lineal inheritance tax rate under 72 P.S. § 9116.
Morrisville Borough sits directly across the Delaware River from Trenton, NJ, with roughly 8,700 residents and a distinct working-class character. Morrisville has its own school district (Morrisville Borough SD) separate from Pennsbury, which matters for residents thinking about long-term planning and where to settle. The river-border location means a meaningful share of Morrisville residents have a New Jersey wrinkle in their estate plan: a NJ employer, a NJ retirement account, family in New Jersey, or property across the river. For Morrisville families with multi-state exposure, a revocable living trust is often the cleanest answer to avoid ancillary probate in the other state.
Falls Township is a working-class township in transition. The same families have lived in Levittown ranchers since the 1950s, while warehouses and distribution centers along Route 13 turn over weekly. People in Falls Township call because they want a Bucks County attorney who actually knows the area, not a Center City firm with a Bristol mailing address. The Bristol office is roughly ten minutes from most of Falls Township, which means an in-person meeting is realistic. Estates filed at the Bucks County Register of Wills in Doylestown go through us, and we handle every stage from petition through final accounting. For business clients, we keep entity work, commercial leases, and disputes under one attorney instead of bouncing between specialists.
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