Jul 10, 2018 | Estate Planning, Questions and Answers, Trusts & Wills
The Chilina Law Firm is an estate planning law firm. This means that its estate planning attorneys are able to assist clients with developing an estate plan (creating the documents for a trust, will, durable power of attorney, medical directive, etc.), or if a client...
Jun 28, 2018 | Questions and Answers, Trusts & Wills
Common Uses of an Irrevocable Trust The attorneys for the Chilina Law Firm are estate planning attorneys and as such, we are often asked what exactly is an irrevocable trust (as compared to a revocable trust) and when are irrevocable trusts commonly used. An...
Jun 19, 2018 | Estate Planning, Questions and Answers, Trusts & Wills
The Chilina Law Firm is an estate planning law firm. This means that the estate planning attorneys of the Chilina Law Firm are able to assist clients with developing an estate plan (creating the documents for a trust, will, durable power of attorney, medical...
Jun 14, 2018 | Property, Questions and Answers
The Chilina Law Firm is an estate planning law firm. This means that its estate planning attorneys are able to assist clients with developing an estate plan (creating the documents for a trust, will, durable power of attorney, medical directive, etc.), or if a client...
Apr 19, 2018 | Questions and Answers, Trusts & Wills
What is probate in California and when is it necessary? Probate is a court-supervised process that occurs after someone dies and is for the purpose of paying creditors and ultimately distributing the deceased person’s assets to the deceased person’s heirs....
Apr 12, 2018 | Questions and Answers
What is required to form a contract in California? There’s much more to developing a contract than simply signing your name to a document, in the case of a written contract, or making a promise to do something in exchange for something else in an oral contract....
Mar 26, 2018 | Questions and Answers
In California as in many States, mediation is a useful tool for trying to resolve a variety of legal issues between two or more parties. As a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution, mediation is appropriate for any situation when it is desired to avoid litigation and...
Jul 16, 2017 | Questions and Answers
The statute of limitations refers to the time period when a person must file a lawsuit against another. In essence, it is a law which designates the maximum time period in which a person can wait before filing a lawsuit against another. Generally speaking, the time...
Jun 20, 2017 | Questions and Answers, Trusts & Wills
In California, a revocable living trust is an extremely popular estate planning document that provides its creator(s), the Settlor(s), with beneficial real and personal property management functions during the Settlor(s) lifetime(s) and then, upon the death of the...
Jun 12, 2017 | Trusts & Wills
Wills and Trusts are estate planning documents created by an individual for various reasons which usually include distribution of that person’s assets to specific people, called heirs or beneficiaries, upon the death of the person creating the will or trust. The...
