Year: 2023

Setting Up A Trust Fund

Setting up a trust for your children is an efficient way to transfer family wealth to the next generation in keeping with your wishes and to enable your family to avoid the California probate process after your death. A trust also may convey money to charities or colleges and universities that you support. Trust funds can […]

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Definition of Trustee A trustee is the Trust manager, the person who calls the shots. But the trustee has limits on what they can do with the Trust property. The trustee cannot do whatever they want. They must follow the trust document, and follow the California Probate Code. More than that, trustees don’t get the […]

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Definition of Trust Beneficiary A Trust beneficiary is the person who will enjoy the assets of the Trust. In legal jargon, trust and will attorneys refer to Trust beneficiaries as the “equitable owners” of the Trust. Beneficiaries will receive money and other assets from the Trust either outright (meaning being paid all at once) or in smaller […]

Hi, this is Stewart Albertson with Albertson & Davidson. I want to talk to you about the upside and the downside of contingency fee agreements.  We’ve got several videos that we put out on contingency fee agreements because we want people to better understand how they can use them in a trust or will contest […]

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What can you do when you find yourself left out of a parent’s Will? That all depends on the circumstances surrounding the creation of the Will in the first place. Understanding Inheritance Rights in California For starters, in California children do not have a right to inherit any property from a parent. In other words, […]