Trust and Estates Law Los Angeles
Trust and Estates Law Los Angeles Ca: Caring for your family at different stages of life is part of the protective practice of Trust and Estates Law. As Los Angeles Trust and Estates Law attorneys, we often consult with clients in multi-disciplinary legal areas. Our Los Angeles practice of Trust and Estates Law includes all of the following areas of law:
Will Contest (Wills and Trusts): Our Elder & Trust and Estates 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 handle other decisions.
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 an advance directive of your health care decision and as a statement of your authority to let someone else 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 need to be managed and then distributed upon death. This trust law process is referred to as trust administration or trust settlement.
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. Estate distributions are generally referred to as probate administration or estate administration.
Conservatorships & Trust and Estates 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 an impact on a person’s ability to contest an estate or trust and their respective results after death via a substituted judgment order.
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 Trust and Estates 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 linked to litigation in trust and estate law contests.
Call Mina Sirkin, Specialist Attorney at 818.340.4479, Trust and Estates Law Los Angeles.
