California Estate Planning Blog
The California Estate Planning Blog says it is a "compendium of matters involving estate planning in California."
Author: Authors Jennifer N. Sawday and Monica Goel are lawyers with Tredway, Lumsdaine & Doyle, with offices in Southern California.
Blawg Related Categories: Trusts & Estates • States • California • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from California Estate Planning Blog
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Your Trust and Its Schedule A.
Does your living trust have a Schedule A attached to it? If your answer is No, do not past go and contact your estate planning attorney now to prepare a Schedule A.If your answer is…
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Knowing Your Estate Planning Attorney
Last week I made a home visit to a long time client. Her husband recently passed. They always had trouble traveling to our office. And I always made a point to schedule home visits with…
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Trustees for Blended Families.
Estate planning is a must for blended families. Families where there are children from a prior marriage or a relationship need estate planning to make the parents' wishes known and protect all of the children…
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Elder Care Resources and Geriatric Care Managers.
Last week, the local Long Beach paper featured a local Long Beach based website and company focused on providing resources for elder care called AgingPro.com. The person behind the website was selected by Oprah's magazine…
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WSJ Article on Estate Planning in Dire Times
Click here to read a fascinating article on estate planning and why now is the time to do it. It was a dark and stormy night... (oh, that's Snoopy, read the wiki on it here.)The…
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Save the Date Cards.
Funny how save the date cards have become prevalent these days. Save the date, we are getting married! Save the date, it's a party! Save the date, etcetera etcetera. Yesterday at a presentation for the…
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FDIC Insurance Limits Raised
Effective October 3 through December 31, 2009, President Bush signed a law raising the FDIC depositor insurance coverage limit to $250,000 per account subject to rules and upward adjustments. See this link from the FDIC…
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Can You Witness a Will and Still Take?
Can an interested party be a witness to a will? In other words, the will leaves you something and you are one of the witnesses subscribed to the will. Is the gift in the will…
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Notary Issues: (1) Name Changes and (2) Not Driving?
Name Changes.If you recently changed your name and own real property, please consider doing a quitclaim deed from your old name to your new name while you still have identification for proper notarization. We had…