Depending on the nature of any given asset, there are ways to avoid probate. Probate is the process of managing and distributing someone’s assets after they have died. For someone who dies with a will ...

A landmark reform of California’s flawed probate system, spotlighted by the troubled Britney Spears case, is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. The legislation, Assembly Bill 1663, sailed unanimously ...

Probate in California is costly, time-consuming and public. As a result, living trusts are an increasingly popular tool to avoid probate and maintain privacy. However, following the death of a trustor ...

I went through it when my father died, and my family spent the next year talking to lawyers, trying to get things squared ...

The recent attention on conservatorships was heightened last fall, when at Ingham’s request, the judge appointed Bessemer Trust to act as co-conservator along with her father. That order has yet to ...

A landmark reform of California’s flawed probate system, spotlighted by the troubled Britney Spears case, is headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. The legislation, Assembly Bill 1663, sailed unanimously ...