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  • Talking Estate Plans with Your Loved Ones This Holiday Season
    Talking Estate Plans with Your Loved Ones This Holiday Season

    Imagine a typical scene at your household during the holidays. It probably includes just about your entire family gathered around one table – two if you have young children in your family tree – ...

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  • Living Trusts
    Living Trusts

    A living trust or an inter vivos trust is an estate litigation tool that enables the creator of the trust to transfer assets to beneficiaries without going through probate . It is a written agreement ...

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  • Musician Lou Reed Leaves Estate to Wife and Sister
    Musician Lou Reed Leaves Estate to Wife and Sister

    American musician Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, the front man for the 1960s band The Velvet Underground, left majority of his $15 million estate to his wife, Laurie Anderson. Reed, who underwent a liver ...

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  • Are You An Omitted or Pretermitted Heir?
    Are You An Omitted or Pretermitted Heir?

    A pretermitted heir is a person who would likely stand to inherit under a will or trust , except that the person who wrote the will (testator) or trust (settlor) did not know, or did not know of, the ...

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  • How Can You Circumvent the Omitted Spouse Provision?
    How Can You Circumvent the Omitted Spouse Provision?

    Under the California Probate Code, an omitted spouse is a surviving spouse that was unintentionally disinherited under a will or trust that was executed prior to marriage. The law provides for the ...

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  • Part IV - The Omitted Spouse
    Part IV - The Omitted Spouse

    Continuing our blog on the omitted spouse and specifically, the Estate of Will (170 Cal.App.4 th 902 (2009)), Gertrude appealed the probate court''s decision to honor the prenuptial agreement and ...

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