Your brother needs a complete estate plan. He needs to retain a local estate planning attorney. If he owns real property or has minor or disabled...

You hve to wait 40 days to distribute it to the beneficiaries, but you should be able to safeguard it. Whoever is in charge of your brother's...

If the 2009 or 2015 document is a "restatement" of the trust, the earlier documents are irrelevant unless there is a problem with the restatement's...

All need to sign. And, if possible, all should show up together at the bank. Then the bank can distribute directly to the heirs. Birth order is...

Most "memory care" facilities are locked or use other measures to prevent patients from leaving (e.g., elevator codes). Therefore, unless she...

California Probate Code §331 allows you to access the safe deposit box to find a will or instructions for disposing of the body and inventory what...

Letting the property go to foreclosure may get you sued. You will probably get less money than you would if you sold the property. And, the other...

1. Reading the will happens only in the movies. Over the course of more than 40 years of practice, one widow asked me to do it. Everyone else wants...

Retain an estate planning attorney to prepare a HIPAA waiver or an Advance Health Care Directive and get it to your boyfriend. He will have to get...

If your husband lacks capacity, he cannot legally sign anything. So, what do you need the power to do? To make medical decisions, you will need...