Daniel K. Printz is an experienced attorney and teaches "Estates, Wills and Trusts" at the University of San Diego.
Posted in Estate Planning, Living Trusts, Trust Administration on May 18th, 2012
The trust document covers only things that are put into the trust. The will covers anything that is not in trust, and not in a designated-beneficiary account like life insurance or retirement accounts.
Posted in Estate Planning, Life Insurance, Living Trusts, New Parents, San Diego on Apr 24th, 2012
A Living Estate is what we own while we are alive. All of those things that go into your financial junk drawer: your cash, real property, vehicles, jewelery, 401K accounts, etc., are part of your living estate.
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 [...]
