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Former NFL star Michael Oher has taken legal action to end his conservatorship.

By creating an estate plan you can preserve funds for your intended recipients and avoid unnecessary administration costs.

Under a distribution scheme like the example above, your children will not receive their intended inheritance until your death, meaning most children receive when they are approximately 55 years old. By that time, your children are at a stage of their life where the money will not be as impactful, or they cannot use it to optimize their life in the way they could have when they were 30 years old.

In the Estate of Anne Heche, the Los Angeles County Superior Court was presented with the question of whether it would consider an email a will despite California’s lack of legislation validating an electronic will.

In the Estate of Billy Joe Douglas (2022) 83 Cal. App. 5th 690, the Third District Court of Appeal, held that a clerical error in naming an estate administrator as a judgment debtor could be fixed by a motion to correct the judgment.

The global Covid-19 pandemic has forced many of us to confront that distressing “what if” question as we come

When a person dies (known as a “decedent”), their estate (that is, all of their assets and property) comprises both

Unfortunately, there may be times when a trustee of a trust breaches their fiduciary duties to the trust’s beneficiaries

The process of probate in California involves taking a closer look at the decedent’s will and estate. In so many

In California, when an individual dies (known as a “decedent”), his or her assets must be distributed to the decedent’s