Estate Planning and Probate Law
When it comes to estate planning in California, one size does not fit all. Each estate plan is as unique as the family for whom it is prepared and the collection of assets owned by that family. Our Los Angeles estate planning attorneys take into account each of our client’s background, education, wealth, sophistication, and family issues to create an individualized estate plan that accomplishes your goals in a manner that is clear and understandable to you.
We help individuals and families tackle the difficult problems of transferring wealth to younger generations in a way that protects the assets and minimizes excessive estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes while still fostering the beneficiaries’ needs for independence, self-determination, and productivity.
Our estate planning attorneys are among the most experienced in the South Bay with expertise in all forms of estate planning, including the drafting and implementation of:
- Living Trusts
- Wills
- Powers Of Attorney For Finances
- Advance Health Care Directives
- Life Insurance Trusts
- Dynastic And Generation-Skipping Trusts
- Grantor Retained Annuity And Unitrusts
- Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts
- Qualified Personal Residence Trusts
- Charitable Remainder Trusts
- Self-Canceling Installment Notes
- Private Annuities
- Co-Ownership Agreements
- Premarital And Prenuptial Agreements
- Family Limited Partnerships
- Family Limited Liability Companies
- Other Estate Planning Instruments