Probate Law Los Angeles
Probate Law Los Angeles Ca: Caring for your family at different stages of life is part of the protective practice of Probate Law. As Los Angeles Probate Law attorneys, we often counsel clients in multi-disciplinary legal areas. Our Los Angeles practice of Probate Law includes all of the following areas of law:
Legal Rights in Will Contests (Wills and Trusts): Our Elder & Probate Law practice focus of preparing a plan of action for management of assets during incapacity and for distribution of the assets after death for residents in Los Angeles, when your know your family members will need to deal with other decisions. If you are curious what your legal rights may be in an estate, under a will, or where there is no will, contact us here. Mediations are good ways of resolving Will Contests and Trust Contests in Los Angeles. We provide mediation and litigation services for trust and estates.
Preparation of Power of Attorney Documents: Power of attorney documents are created as means to assist in decision-making during difficult times by appointing an agent to make decisions on behalf of the principal, as alternatives to court proceedings.
Preparation of Advance Health Care Directives: When it is time for making health care decisions, this document serves as a directive of your health decision and as a statement of your authority to allow someone else to make health care decisions for you when you are no longer able to do so yourself.
Trust Administration: When a person dies (or even when he/she is incapacitated), the assets of the trust need to be managed and then distributed upon death. This process is referred to as trust administration.
Probate Administration: When there is no trust, when the trust is invalid, or when a trust is not funded, or where there are other questions about the will and trust, certain court procedures allow for distribution of assets after death.
Conservatorships & Probate Law: Conservatorships are protective proceedings where an adult requests certain powers from the court to care for another adult. A Los Angeles Conservatorship is a complex process that requires expert advice and can have a large impact on the ability to contest an estate or trust and their respective results after death. Restrictive or Springing Power of Attorney documents in California can sometimes be an alternative to a conservatorship. Ask us when a power of attorney is appropriate.
A Limited Conservatorship is made for developmentally disabled persons who reach 18 years of age or are older. In those conservatorships, we protect people with all type of disabilities, and many in the autistic spectrum.
Medi-Cal Planning and Asset Protection: We assist clients in obtaining Medi-Cal benefits and create estate strategies for asset protection for our clients to retain their most valued possessions.
Guardian Ad Litem: Many times, an incapacitated person who is also elderly has rights to claims in lawsuits. Our Guardian Ad Litem can help protect the disabled in lawsuits. Mina Sirkin is on the Guardian Ad Litem Panel of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Probate Court.
Financial Elder Abuse and Probate Laws: We help recover assets of elderly in probate and civil court where the assets have been taken by another person, or used for a wrongful purpose. Financial abuse of elders is also frequently subject of litigation in trust estates and will contests.
Call Mina Sirkin, Specialist Attorney at 818.340.4479, Probate Law Los Angeles.
