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Posted in Estate Planning, High Net Worth Clients, Living Trusts, Probate on Mar 8th, 2011
To an estate planning attorney what is astonishing is not that Tony Curtis disinherited his children, which frankly happens often enough not to produce comment, but that he did so publicly when he could have easily done it privately.
Posted in Estate Planning, Lawyer's Corner, Living Trusts on Mar 8th, 2011
Your father, as a settlor and trustee, has a right to a copy of the trust that he and your mother hired the attorney to draft, assuming the attorney still retains a copy in the file. The request does not have to be notarized; in fact, he should simply be able to pick up the phone and call.
Posted in Estate Planning, Living Trusts, Trust Administration on Nov 8th, 2010
Typically, a trust won’t specify how much a trustee should be paid for their effort. And yet, unless wavied by settlor, or specifically established by settlor, successor trustee’s have a right to ‘reasonable compensation’. What is reasonable?
Posted in Estate Planning, High Net Worth Clients, Living Trusts on Oct 29th, 2010
There are two main purposes of an international trust for U.S. citizens. The first is to combine domestic and offshore assets into a unified estate plan with a common trustee and set of instructions. The second use of interantional trusts is for asset protection.
Posted in Estate Planning, Living Trusts on Oct 20th, 2010
Here is a question posed recently on avvo.com. My answer was chosen as “Best Answer” by the questioner. Question: How can my parents change their revocable trust without an attorney? My parents reside in Wisconsin and have a revocable trust with 3 of 8 children designated to administer the trust. If they wish to delete [...]
Posted in Living Trusts on Sep 7th, 2010
Beneficiaries of a living trust are entitled to accountings only when the trust becomes irrevocable.
Posted in Estate Planning, Living Trusts on Aug 25th, 2010
Today’s question and answer came from AVVO.Com. The person, a single parent of one child, had set up her daughter as the Pay-On-Death beneficiary of her bank accounts. Now she wanted to figure out a way of transferring her homes to the daughter without making a trust. My advice to her follows. Q: if a [...]
Posted in Estate Planning, Living Trusts, Planning for Incapacity on Jun 10th, 2010
This guide provides a list of the typical documents that make up a California estate plan. Costs for this plan vary from attorney to attorney, as well as on the complexity and size of the estate. 1. Revocable Living Trust A living trust, also known as a Revocable Living Trust or a Family Trust, is [...]
Posted in Estate Planning, Living Trusts on Feb 4th, 2010
When should I review or update my Trust? You should review your estate planning documents periodically. If it is not up to date when you die, your estate may not be distributed as you wish. Your Trust can be changed through an Amendment, a legal document that must be drafted and executed with the same procedure [...]
Posted in Daniel Printz, Estate Planning, Living Trusts, New Parents, University of San Diego on Jan 3rd, 2010
Come to our seminar – 1/27/2010 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Scripps Coastal Medical Center in Carlsbad.
