Teresa Gonzalez Wilkinson

Teresa Gonzalez Wilkinson

5.0
Rating: 7.3

Licensed for 28 years

Estate planning Lawyer at San Jose, CA
Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Elder Law, Probate, Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

1100 Lincoln Ave Ste 382, San Jose, CA

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Licenses

Licensed in California for 10 years

State: California

Acquired: 2016

Active

No misconduct found

Licensed in Georgia for 28 years

State: Georgia

Acquired: 1997

Resigned

No misconduct found

Location

Caplan Wilkinson

1100 Lincoln Ave Ste 382, San Jose, CA, 95125

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Teresa Gonzalez Wilkinson's Reviews

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Posted by Mimi | November 02, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Estate Planning

Estate Planning

I had the opportunity to work with Teresa on estate planning. Teresa did an exceptional job leading me through the process and making everything understandable and straight forward. Where there were choices to be made, she made sure I understood the options and the implications of my choices. Teresa ...responded promptly to questions and met every deadline she set. I enjoyed working with her and have no hesitation recommending her to my friends and family.

Posted by Catherine | August 21, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Trusts

Personalized Trust Planning

Teresa breaks setting up a trust into discrete chunks of work which makes the process less daunting. and easier to complete without stretching out the amount of it takes to finalize your trust. More importantly, Teresa listened to me, learned how I live my life and, my distribution goals. In turn... she made custom recommendations to create a trust which is personal to my life and memory. Teresa guides you through some difficult decisions. I always felt that she was working for my benefit rather than pushing to finish up. Another huge part of Teresa's service is to ensure that you understand how trusts work especially the changes that you can make to tweak it in the future. The real definition of a living trust. Teresa/Caplan Wilkinson provides simple to use tools to document your assets, your plans and final chapter care. I'm happy knowing that my trust is not fixed but will continue to age gracefully with me.

Posted by Lance | August 15, 2023 | Hired Attorney | Estate Planning

Fantastic work on our family trust

I highly recommend Teresa Wilkinson for any estate planning work like creating trusts and wills. She updated our family trust and will documents that were over 20 years old. There was a lot to update in the trust structure and wording and for me the new documents are much easier to understand. ... What stands about working with Teresa are her trustworthiness and thoroughness. We've known Teresa for many years and trust her implicitly. Knowing she's an expert in estate planning and elder law gave us complete confidence in choosing her as our lawyer. Teresa was extremely thorough during our interviews to cover all aspects like advanced medical directives and a number of topics I hadn't considered.

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Teresa Gonzalez Wilkinson's Lawyer Endorsements

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Elizabeth Caplan

Elder law lawyer | Oct 06

Relationship: Co-worker

"Teresa and I have been working together for nearly four years. We met when we were both legal aid attorneys, after which we formed our own small firm focused on elder law and estate planning. We are passionate about many of the same issues, especially helping people protect themselves from financial and other forms of elder and dependent adult abuse, and using thoughtful estate planning as a preventative tool to that end. Teresa is highly driven, self-motivated. She's an especially diligent and thorough researcher, unwilling to walk away from a complex legal topic with a mere superficial understanding of it. And she really shines when it comes to human interaction. She makes legal concepts accessible to non-lawyers without condescending, and unlike so many of us these days, she won't just email you when she can just pick up the phone. Admittedly I'm biased, but I genuinely admire Teresa's unique mix of approachability, intellectual curiosity, and tenacity."

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Elizabeth Caplan

Elder law lawyer

Experience

Rating:  7.3 (Very Good)

Work Experience

2023 - Present

Partner, Caplan Wilkinson LLP

2017 - 2022

Senior Staff Attorney, Senior Adults Legal Assistance

1997 - 1999

Associate, Nelson, Hill, Lord & Beasely (Decatur, GA)

Associations

2017 - Present

Silicon Valley Bar Association

Member

2016 - Present

State Bar of California

Member

Education

1997

University of Georgia School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

N/A

Purdue University

BS - Bachelor of Science

N/A

Purdue University

MS - Master of Science

Speaking Engagements

2020

San Jose Retired Employees Association

Home Equity Protection for Older Adults

2017

Joint Presentation of Project Sentinel and Senior Adults Legal Assistance

Physical and Financial Elder Abuse

Languages

English

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