Fighting For Your Inheritance
Fighting For Your Inheritance
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Hi, this is Keith Davidson at Albertson & Davidson. And in this video, I want to discuss step-parents. And I don’t mean to disparage step-parents, there’s a lot of very good step-parent and step-child relationships out there. But, there’s also some…
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This is Stewart Albertson with Albertson and Davidson, and I want to talk to you about an issue that we do see from time to time called advances on inheritance. Advances on inheritance are essentially a loan that mom or dad…
Practice your Voir dire
Assets in Trust and Will Litigation
Motions for Summary Judgement
Like nearly every legal claim or cause of action, Trust and Will lawsuits carry various limitation periods within which to file suit. The complexity lies in how the various limitations work, when they apply, and how they overlap in this area.
There are times when people try to implement an estate plan, but things go awry. And that can happen when an attorney makes a mistake in drafting a California Trust or Will resulting in legal malpractice.
Bringing and prosecuting a legal malpractice case against an attorney who improperly drafted a California Living Trust or Will…
The most important interrogatory in California is Form Interrogatory 15.1. Propound it; meet and confer on it; file motions to compel on it. Make them give you their facts, witnesses, and documents supporting their denials and affirmative defenses. Form Interrogatory 15.1 is the great equalizer in California trust and probate litigation.
We should never forget when reading a written decision by any Court that there are people—real, live, breathing people—behind the words laid down in the Court’s opinion. I was recently reminded of this fact when I received a call from Tom Giraldin, son of William A. Giraldin, whose estate I discussed in an earlier blog…
Trust and Will litigation tears families apart. It may be that family relationships aren’t too good to begin with if litigation arises, but taking matters to Court doesn’t help. And as lawyers we have little to no ability to repair family relationships.
In one case, out of the many hundreds I have handled over my…
