Los Altos, CA
Estate planning Lawyer at Los Altos, CA
Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate ... +3 more
If the estate is worth more than $100,000 and you want to be able to transfer it to the heirs, then yes, that's the only way to do it. I have...
The answer depends on what the will or the trust says. In legalese "forfeiting" your share to another beneficiary is accomplished by signing and...
Private letter rulings (PLR) apply only to the person who received the opinion from the IRS, so technically the PLR you are referring to applies...
I'm sorry about your husband's death. If Georgia is like California, filing a probate proceeding starts and "official" clock running on how long a...
There are gift tax issues that need to be considered here, along with property tax issues if you want to keep the same rate of property taxes for...
Your question is a bit difficult to follow, but frankly if you and your sister don't get along well, it would be money well spent to have a bank be...
If your mother does not understand English, then it seems to me that it would be malpractice on the lawyer's part not to explain the document to...
It is a very bad idea to make changes to the will by initialing it as you propose - you risk having the entire will be consider to have been...
A person does not need to be a US citizen in order to inherit your estate, so you need not worry about that. You should name an executor who...
It sounds like the beneficiaries need to file a petition in the surrogate's court asking that this person be forced to provide an accounting and...