Planning for your family

• Living trusts: Keep the house and accounts out of probate, and keep your affairs private.
• Wills: Name a guardian for your children, and catch anything left outside the trust.
• Financial power of attorney: Someone you trust can pay the bills and manage property if you can’t.
• Health care directives: Name who speaks to your doctors, and put your wishes in writing.
• Protecting your children: Guardians, and a trust that controls when and how children inherit.
• Newlyweds: Start your marriage with a plan that fits both of you.
• Blended families: Provide for a spouse and still protect children from a prior marriage.
• After a divorce: Update the trust, will and beneficiary forms that still name your ex.
• Special needs planning: Leave an inheritance without disrupting public benefits.
• Asset protection: Trust provisions that help shield an inheritance from creditors and divorce.
• Business owners: Make sure the business can keep running, and passes the way you intend.
• Pets: Name a caregiver and set aside money for an animal who may outlive you.

Where I help

My office is in West Los Angeles, and I help families across Southern California. See the counties and cities I’m often asked about.

When someone has already died

If you’re settling an estate rather than planning one, that’s probate or trust administration, at laprobatelawyers.com. A fight over a will or trust is covered at myinheritance.com.

Call me at (310) 735-9877, or start your plan online.