Mar 15, 2016 | Questions and Answers
If you have spent your life building and running a business, chances are you have definite ideas about whom you would like to take over when you are no longer able to run the business. Is it your spouse, your children, a friend, a key employee? Planning how your...
Mar 9, 2016 | Questions and Answers
With the use of technology by most people these days, it is becoming increasingly rare that a person dies without having some type of digital property in their estate. Digital property includes, for example, cell phones and smart phones, email accounts, social media...
Feb 8, 2016 | Questions and Answers
Well, the short answer to this questions is that California law does not recognize common law marriage as a form of marriage for California residents; however, there is a big exception (of course, because it is the law)! So let’s start with the basics, what is...
Feb 1, 2016 | Questions and Answers
California law has historically permitted a few different ways to transfer real property on death of the owner without the need for probate. Some of these non-probate transfers include joint tenancy deeds, community property deeds, community property with right of...
Jan 25, 2016 | Questions and Answers
So you’ve spent a few thousand dollars engaging an attorney to develop and implement a revocable trust-based estate plan. However, you and your attorney forgot to fund the trust. Upon your death and because you forgot to fund your trust, does your estate have...
