Estate Planning Law Los Angeles
Estate Planning Law Los Angeles Ca: Caring for your family at different stages of life is the largest part of the practice of Estate Planning Law. As Los Angeles Estate Planning Law attorneys, we often counsel clients in a multi-disciplinary legal areas. Our Los Angeles practice of Estate Planning Law includes all of the following areas of law:
Estate Planning (Wills and Trusts): Our Elder & Estate Planning Law practice focus of preparing a plan of action for management of assets during incapacity and for distribution of the assets at death for residents in Los Angeles.
Preparation of Power of Attorney Documents: Power of attorney documents are created as means to assist in decision-making by appointing an agent to make decisions on behalf of the principal.
Preparation of Advance Health Care Directives: When it is time for making health care decisions, this document serves as your concise decision regarding your health 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 in trust often need to be managed and then distributed upon death. This process is called trust administration.
Probate Administration: When there is no trust, when the trust is invalid, or when a trust is not funded, a certain court process allows for distribution of assets at death and admission of the will in court.
Conservatorships & Estate Planning Law: Conservatorships are protective proceedings where an adult requests powers from the court to care for another adult. A Los Angeles Conservatorship is a complex process that requires expert advice.
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 division.
Financial Elder Abuse and Estate Planning 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 a painful legal proceeding in trust estate and probate contests.
Call Mina Sirkin, Specialist Attorney at 818.340.4479, Estate Planning Law Los Angeles.