Partner Keith A. Davidson discusses the difficult path of Trustee removal in California Trust cases. While not impossible, removing a Trustee can be harder than you think.
For our email subscribers: click on the title link to view this video on our website.
Does a letter from a lawyer work to resolve disputes? Not usually. And having opposing lawyers write letters back and forth is a great way to incur legal fees, but not so great in getting anything resolved.
The inherent problem with letters is that there is no penalty for ignoring them. A lawyer can threaten
In our last post we set out three general categories of information you need to know to be successful in trust and will litigation. They were:
Civil procedure we discussed. Now let’s tackle civil
Part 1: What is the right to privacy?
Do you have a right to privacy anymore? in this age of ubiquitous information and password breaches, its hard to imagine that anything is confidential.
In California, an individual’s right to privacy is contained in our State’s Constitution–so it is a Constitutional right. And the Court will uphold
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