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...
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....
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...
