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...

Maybe. You need to read the POA very carefully. Most do not allow the use of the principal's money to benefit anyone else. However, some allow...

Publishing the probate notice in an "adjudicated newspaper of general circulation" helps keep the newspapers in business. I usually have Bond...

After an attorney in Laguna Woods made himself the heir of many elders with no near relatives, the California legislature made it hard for a...

It is not clear what is happening. Did your husband have a trust or will? If a trust, the current trustee has the right to hire any attorney to...