A common question I get is I still have not started probate is it too late? That is, it’s been a week, a month, a year, 5 years, or LONGER and they wonder if it’s too late to start the California probate process. Generally speaking there is not a deadline to start the process. I […]

When the California voters passed Proposition 19, in 2020, they effectively created a death tax in California. A tax that hadn’t existed at that time. A lot of voters clearly didn’t know what they were voting on because they started to get very upset when they started to see property taxes changing. The Howard Jarvis […]

I am going to classify this a client story because I have heard this scenario so many times. I have been doing estate and probate work since the 1990’s! When I first did probate work the California probate courts would update us on the status of cases by posting case information on a bulletin board […]

I have blogged about this many new years in the past and, here I am again, reminding you. Yes, I have my living trust in place but DO YOU? To me it seems very normal for people to say “I will get a living trust as part of my new years resolution!” The problem, like […]