Fighting For Your Inheritance
Fighting For Your Inheritance
The method for amending a Trust may not be the same as the method for revoking a Trust–what’s the difference? In this video, Stewart Albertson discusses the difference between the two.
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When trying to amend or revoke a Revokable Trust document, the number one place to start is with the actual trust document.
From time to time we have clients come to our office upset that the attorney who drafted their parents’ California estate plan (i.e., living trust, will, and durable powers of attorney) got it wrong or perhaps failed to properly implement the parents’ estate plan.
In a recent case we handled an attorney drafted an amendment…
One of the most obvious features of a revocable living Trust is that you can revoke it. It’s right there in the name “revocable Trust.” But you can also amend a revocable Trust because, for a long time, California courts have interpreted the power to revoke (which means to entirely do away with a Trust)…
Trust and Will lawsuits often provide different paths to the same destination. My client, a trust beneficiary, recently filed a lawsuit against a trustee of a California trust for financial elder abuse, and at the same time sued for undue influence to set aside the Trust amendment created at the hands of the Trustee/Abuser. In…
