Category: Los Angeles Probate

When a couple creates a revocable trust with an A/B designation, when the first spouse passes away, the remaining spouse usually remains as trustee. While in most cases, this works out well, there are times when becoming the trustee of two trusts…

When you create a living trust or an estate plan, you go into it with the best of intentions, and never think that it may not work in the future.  Pay attention to some of the following points and review your trust…

Yes, you can restrict a power of attorney in Los Angeles California, if you are the principal, you are competent, and you use the right restrictive language in your Durable Power of Attorney. Durable v.  Non-Durable Power of Attorney First, a Durable…

The speed of getting a temporary conservatorship in Los Angeles depends on the facts of your case.   First, you must know that how fast a conservatorship may be granted depends on the urgency of the facts and circumstances of your case, especially…

Because it is very difficult to get an LPS conservatorship in Los Angeles, California, parents of mentally ill persons should consider alternatives to conservatorships when the occasion allows for the exercise of the alternatives. What are your goals? If your goals are…

Every adult in California is presumed to be competent and capable of making his or her own decisions unless a court determines otherwise, either in a conservatorship or in a Guardian Ad Litem appointment proceeding. If a person becomes incapable of making…

What happens to old Guardianships of the Estate in California after kids reach 18 years of age? If you were appointed as Guardian of the Estate of a minor many years ago and he or she has now reached 18 years of…

We have administered thousands of estate plans and wealth over the last 26 years for families that consider themselves blended.   If you have a blended family, meaning, you have been married more than one time, or have children from different relationships, there…

Security of finances and a home for our children is at the top of our list when we become parents of young children.  With that, comes questions and answers about estate planning which is statistically initiated by young mother with newborns. At…

There are many occasions when the conservatorship process in Los Angeles seems to be failing you or your elderly parents.  You must know in advance how the conservatorship timeline is set up so that you can move through the steps of the…