Estate Planning in California

The term "bad lawyering" could be considered an oxymoron because no attorney would ever perform in a substandard manner...... Obvi...

Since the estate tax exemption amount is currently pegged to inflation, the IRS recently announced the exemption amount for 2025 as detail...

A litigant is generally entitled to file court documents at their discretion. That is, the litigant does not need pre-approval to file a com...

An attorney owes a duty of care to their client (see act in their best interest). In the context of estate planning, the client is writing...

Under Welfare & Institutions Code §15610.30(a)(1)–(3), financial elder abuse occurs when an individual "(1) Takes, secretes, appro...

Can emails to an estate planning attorney constitute an amendment to an individual's revocable trust? This interesting legal question wa...