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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 28 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate, Business and more

Bio: I live and work in Simi Valley and have been practicing here since 1999. I love practicing law in Simi Valley and providing my community with personal, attentive, and experienced legal services, with integrity and effective advocacy. In 2006 I sta...

Rating: 7.7

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 14 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

Bio: Based in Los Angeles, Brian is certified by the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization as a legal specialist in estate planning, trust, and probate law. He focuses his practice on estate planning and trust and estate administratio...

Rating: 10

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Estate Planning Lawyers in California

Estate planning attorneys prepare wills, powers of attorney, advance healthcare directives, and trusts to ensure clients’ wishes are honored. They advise on tax-efficient transfers, guardianship for minors, asset protection, and succession planning. They draft documents, coordinate with financial advisors, and guide families through probate avoidance and legacy goals.

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Estate planning attorneys prepare wills, powers of attorney, advance healthcare directives, and trusts to ensure clients’ wishes are honored. They advise on tax-efficient transfers, guardianship for minors, asset protection, and succession planning. They draft documents, coordinate with financial advisors, and guide families through probate avoidance and legacy goals.

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 32 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Business

Review: "A few months ago I had Ester Hopkins review my Trust. She immediately went through my trust and updated and added all documents that were needed. She is an excellent attorney, very friendly and knows how to treat people right. In a very short peri..."

Rating: 7.8

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 19 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

Bio: Ashby C. Sorensen was born and raised in Virginia just outside of our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.. He is a graduate of University of Colorado at Boulder, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication. Ashby later moved further ...

Rating: 8.3

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 29 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Litigation, Family and more

Bio: Amiel Wade specializes in civil litigation, conducting jury trials in complex cases and in helping individuals and businesses in every phase of their development. He has been practicing law for almost twenty-five years. He also has served as both ...

Rating: 10

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 31 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills & Living Wills

Bio: Debra DeCarli is an experienced estate planning attorney serving Pleasanton and Mendocino, California. Practicing law since 1994, she holds both a J.D. and a Master of Public Affairs from the University of Texas. As a single mother of three during...

Rating: 7.2

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 10 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Workers Compensation

Bio: I am an attorney whose practice areas are limited to personal injury, car accidents (including pedestrian accidents) and estate planning. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse and moved to California to...

Rating: 8.4

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 14 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Wills & Living Wills, Trusts

Review: "Tyler Hinz is a very knowledgeable and professional lawyer. Our Grandfather wanted to create a trust to maximize the inheritance to his loved ones. Tyler did a great job explaining and creating the trust. He is very thorough and honest. His fee is..."

Rating: 7.7

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 40 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Trusts, Probate and more

Bio: I am a certified specialist in probate, estate planning, and trust law. I have received the highest rating (AV) from Martindale-Hubbell for competency and ethics for over 15 years. I am a native San Diegan and I have advised hundreds of clients ov...

Rating: 8.4

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 38 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate, Bankruptcy & Debt and more

Bio: Andrew Kern has an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in N.Y. and a Law Degree from The Baylor School of Law in Texas, a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. (Please know that not all law schools are accredited by the ...

Rating: 9.0

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 16 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate, Litigation

Bio: Neal is an estate planning attorney based in Carpinteria, California who specializes in helping families plan for the unexpected. Since being licensed in 2009, he has focused on trust-based estate planning, special needs planning, trust administra...

Rating: 7.6

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 23 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate, Corporate & Incorporation

Review: "I hired Heidi Klippel to prepare my estate plan and will. She helped me think through a difficult subject so that my trust document would be complete and satisfy my wishes under scenarios I had not thought about. Ms. Klippel was professional and c..."

Rating: 7.3

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 21 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, DUI & DWI, Speeding & Traffic Ticket

Bio: David Barzaga is a hard working Sacramento and Stockton lawyer specializing in all types of Traffic Tickets, Speeding, Commercial Driver Speeding, Excess of 100mph, Driving on Suspended License, DMV Negligent Operator Hearings, DMV, DUI, Expungeme...

Rating: 8.3

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 42 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Family, Tax and more

Bio: One of my passions is for the earth's ecosystems. I went to UC Berkeley as an undergraduate and graduated with a BS in Environmental Science. Before going to law school I worked for the City of Concord for a few years doing environmental planning....

Rating: 9.9

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 22 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate, Trusts and more

Bio: Experienced probate representation that produces results through a mutually beneficial partnership with clients. We will handle your probate estate, practicing what our grandmothers taught us, we treat you like family. We work toward our client's ...

Rating: 8.1

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 38 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Personal Injury

Bio: Accomplishments Mr. Lavelle has extensive jury trial experience and has been responsible for more than $20 million in jury verdicts and settlements. His practice focuses primarily on the representation of plaintiffs throughout California in person...

Rating: 10

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 26 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Business, Corporate & Incorporation and more

Bio: While attorney Epi Lopez has represented clients in many different business areas including litigation, today he focuses his efforts on the business needs of his clients advising them on business start-up and expansion issues such as incorporation...

Rating: 9.1

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 28 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Licensing

Bio: I am the KEY to unlocking a California professional license. With a degree from University California, Santa Barbara, and a law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, I understand the nuances of California licensing boards. As a criminal de...

Rating: 8.2

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 23 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate

Bio: My Story Growing up my parents worked hard to make sure I had everything I needed to be successful. My success was more important to theirs. When I was 28 years old my mom had a stroke. My parents were divorced so my mom was alone during this orde...

Rating: 8.0

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California Estate Planning Attorney

Estate Planning Lawyer Licensed for 57 years

Practice Areas: Estate Planning

Rating: 10

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