Year: 2021

You want your life and all your hard work to count for something, and you want your legacy to endure long after you’re gone. Because you have the ability to be generous to both your heirs and others who are less fortunate, you’re considering using one or more...

Your loved one passes away, leaving behind financial assets, physical assets, a home, a car and much more. You know that you need to divide this up between their heirs and beneficiaries. But you can’t just do that without determining what is really there.  As such,...

You’ve always been a creative type, and you’ve made a pretty good living through your residuals and royalties. You’ve got an impressive array of copyrights, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property to your name -- and they may make up the bulk of your...

If you don’t have family or would not like to pass on all of your assets to friends or other loved ones, then one option you have is to open a charitable trust instead. A charitable trust can benefit only the charity that you select or may pass on to a charity as well...

Divorce requires you to make changes in many aspects of life. One area that can be easy to forget about is your estate planning. You should revise your estate plan every few years anyway. Yet, you should also do so whenever there is a significant change in your...

Many people mistakenly believe that if they have a will, their estate will not go through probate. It is not that simple. Probate is a process where the court steps in to ensure a will is valid and that assets and property are properly distributed according to the...

As someone looking into estate planning, you might have noticed how there's generally more to this process than just drafting your will. There are plenty of other legal documents or instruments that form part of the estate planning process. Trusts are one of them. ...

If you have a family member with special needs, you have likely put much thought into providing for them once you can no longer do so. For many in San Diego, California, a special needs trust is a wonderful way of accomplishing this goal. This type of trust ensures...

A will is supposed to be the final wishes of the deceased regarding their estate, but that doesn't mean that every heir will go along peacefully with those plans. In some cases, heirs see fit to contest a will and ask the court to declare it invalid. Under what...