Estate Planning in California

Probate Code § 6451 provides that (a) An adoption severs the relationship of parent and child between an adopted person and a natu...

Usually when a party loses a case, they do not compound their loss by continuing to litigate. In other words,  "if you find yourself in...

One method to invalidate a revocable transfer on death deed (TOD) is by proving undue influence. Obviously the beneficiary of a TOD will hav...

In order to be validly executed, a will needs to be signed by the testator,  by some other person in the testator’s presence and by the test...

The marital status of a person occasionally changes over time. For example, a person could be married one year, divorced the next year and t...

A successor trustee occasionally is tasked with operating a decedent's business post-death. For example, I've had clients in which t...