Blog Posts in Trusts

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...