David Leslie Crockett

I am a longtime client of Crockett Law and Mr. David Crockett personally. Myself and other family members have been clients of his for over ten years. He has handled many family estates, name changes on property I used to own. He also took quick response anytime that I need all of the information fro...m Arizona or California laws.

Mr. Crockett came into our lives at a time of deep sorrow and sadness, but with his vast knowledge of administering trusts he turned our sorrow and frustration into joy and relief. I highly recommend his services. You would be hard pressed to find an attorney in Newport Beach who shows the same level... of compassion, helpfulness, and ease of skill in the work that he provides for his clients. He was our ace in the hole in handling our trust administration matters, so I can only imagine the strength of his skill-set in his other practice areas. I highly recommend him, and have personally referred many members of my family and friends to him.

My wife and I have entrusted the Crockett Law Corporation and attorney David Crockett with many of our lives biggest and most significant aspects. He has handled all of our estate planning matters, helped me with many of my general business problems, and been instrumental in guiding us throughout all... of our real estate transactions and situations in both our personal lives and our professional ones. I have personally known David Crockett and utilized his attorney services for over 15 years. He is an excellent attorney and is as honest as they come. I highly recommend him to anyone searching for a respectable and ethical attorney in the fields of estate & trust matters, real estate law or general business matters. He has been my jack of all trades legally speaking in all of those areas.

Mr. Crockett recently helped my family out in a huge trust and real estate lawsuit mess. My wife and her two brothers inherited equal thirds of a large property that had two homes on one lot as a result of their mothers’ passing in 2002. The Orange County home was put into a trust a few years later b...y way of Trust documents that were drafted by the eldest brother’s business attorney – who apparently had no estate law training. The eldest brother and his new wife were living in the family home since the mother’s death in 2002 and had the most to gain. My wife and her younger brother both have homes of their own, and would have preferred to sell the home in 2002 but did not as an attempt to be compassionate to their older brother. My wife and I live nearby the property and the middle brother lives out of state. In 2013 the eldest brother (who was living on the inherited family property) died unexpectedly leaving his new wife and her adult children and their wives all living on the property. There were 5 adults living there and running a family construction business from the property that had extensive parking for their business vehicles and significant storage spaces for their construction supplies. This unusual property made it unnecessary to lease shop space as would any other similar business. They were not maintaining the property and it was falling into severe disrepair. They wanted to continue to live there essentially rent free going forward though they were all but strangers to the surviving beneficiaries. My wife and her surviving brother absolutely wanted to now sell the their inherited home and approached the now-deceased older brother’s widow. She had a good thing going and did not want to move. She claimed she was now part owner and she felt entitled to that property. The Trust documents that the deceased brother’s business attorney had drafted were a joke! A law professor’s first year students would break out in hilarity it was so bad. It was as if the Trust documents were ordered off a random Internet Legal documents website for $19.95. The trust document didn’t even state who the trust beneficiaries were and left out other basic stuff. Finally, after much pressure, the widow reluctantly agreed to listing the home with a Realtor and signed the listing agreement. The home received offers. One was accepted and the property went into escrow. The clock was now running. The widow, her adult kids and their wives now had a date certain and would have to move by the time escrow would close. The widow was due a 1/3 of the sales proceeds, so she’d eventually have a down payment to purchase a home or money for whatever. One third would be a significant pile of cash. I will continue