Finding Trust Laws in Your Jurisdiction

[Music] By this Keith Davidson at Albertson and Davidson in this video I'm discussing where you can find trust laws in your jurisdiction in California most of our trust laws the laws that apply to trustees to trust administration and to the distribution of assets to beneficiaries can be found in the California Probate Code you can find the California Probate Code by going online and looking at the California legislative info that website is a website that is established by our California legislature and one of the tabs on that website will get you to the California codes and one of the codes is the probate code the nice thing about the California Probate Code is it's very robust there's a lot of rules and requirements stated in the code the other source of law for California is court cases and so we're a common law jurisdiction and court cases do help supplant and supplement the written law in the probate code but in California a lot of our laws are written in the probate code if you're in a state outside of California you may also have some form of probate code because most states follow the Uniform probate code there's a Uniform Code that a lot of states will adopt in fact a majority of states have adopted it and it'll be very similar it may not be quite as robust as the California code because the California code is quite long but it'll be very close and it'll be similar in a lot of its provisions I would think that you could probably find your local probate code by going to your state's legislative website I've been to a lot of states web legislative websites and I've been able to find their state code there and you can look for your laws there and a lot of states will also use of course court decisions that's a little bit harder to find although you can always check out Google Scholar that's a really great free resource to find court cases all over the country and it certainly will help you find some of the laws in your jurisdiction Albertson and Davidson is here to help you fight for your inheritance check out al dev law calm for our complete library of helpful legal videos and articles from your favorite California trusts and we'll litigation law firm Albertson and Davidson LLP. [Music]