The confusing world of Trust and Will lawsuits, it can be quite a quagmire. Especially if you are looking on the internet for information because every state does things differently when it comes to the trust and will arena. Even the term “Probate Court” can mean vastly different things in different states.
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How much do lawyers cost? Well that’s a loaded question that no lawyer wants to answer. And yet, every client and potential client wants to know—“what’s this gonna cost me?” Well as a lawyer I have no desire to discuss this on a blog post put out into the public realm. Or if I do
Did you know that there are situations where you could revoke your Will without meaning to do so? In this video I discuss the unintened Will revocation:
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I have heard it a million times before: “I don’t need a Trust because ____________” you fill in the blank: I don’t have enough money, I won’t care when I’m dead, California probate is easy, my wife and I own everything in joint tenancy…there’s many, many excuses and misinformation regarding Trusts in California.
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Lawyers have rules that we must follow (no, seriously we do), and one of them is that any engagement where we estimate the fees to the client will exceed $1,000 must be documented by a written fee agreement—sometimes called retainer agreement or engagement agreement. See Bus. & Prof. Code Section 6148. The California Court
Another year is in the books, and on the web for us thanks to our blog. We wrote quite a few articles again this year, but there are a few stand-outs among them. The following list represents our twelve most popular articles (and our personal favorites too):
The probate process is probably one of the most archaic procedures we still have in our legal system. Probate simply means to prove-up a Will—it’s the process where a Will is determined to be valid by the Court, it is then “admitted” to probate (as we say), an Executor is appointed and the administration of
It takes knowledge and experience in two district areas, trust and wills and litigation/trial, to make a California trust and will litigation lawyer complete.
One of the hardest things to understand for people who do not have experience with our judicial system is the amount of time it takes to resolve most matters in court. Why the wait? In part, it’s due to the backlog of cases in most courtrooms and the lack of funding these days to hire
In January 2010, California once again changed the law of No-Contest clauses in an attempt to make the area easy to apply. Hard to say if that goal was accomplished. In this video we discuss some of the basics of California No-Contest clauses. For those viewing this blog by email subscription, you can click on