Overview
California Estate Planning Lawyer
Our office specializes in estate plans that work. We offer client centered counseling to develop a plan custom designed for you. The initial counseling interview with our Santa Monica estate planning lawyer is used to learn about you, your family, your estate and, most importantly, your goals. The next step is to design an estate plan based around your goals using a team approach that involves your other advisers, such as accountants and financial planners, in the planning process to ensure a plan appropriate for you and your family. The final step is implementing the estate plan tailored to your needs and goals.
It is our objective to provide you with a plan that works. Plans that work allow you to control your property while you are alive and well, take care of yourself and your loved ones in time of disability, and upon your death give what you have, to whom you want, when you want, all at the lowest overall financial and emotional cost to you and your loved ones.
Practice Areas
Estate Planning
Overview of Estate Planning
Federal Transfer Tax
Revocable (Living) Trusts
Marital Deduction
Lifetime Gifts Using the Annual Gift Tax Exclusion
Probate
Overview of Probate
Summary Probate/Proceedings for Small Estates
Intestate Succession
Trust Administration
Overview of Trust Administration
