California Estate Planning Attorney

Protect your property, wishes, and loved ones through a personalized California estate plan, including living trusts, wills, powers of attorney, health care directives, amendments, and trust funding.

A thoughtful estate plan can protect assets, preserve instructions, identify trusted decision-makers, and provide greater clarity for loved ones. ES LAW GROUP prepares personalized plans based on the client’s family, property, business interests, and goals.

• Revocable Living Trusts
• Wills
• Durable Powers of Attorney
• Advance Health Care Directives
• Trust Amendments and Restatements
• Trust Funding
• Business Assignments to Trusts

The documents record choices that have to be made first: who should manage your affairs if you cannot, who should raise minor children, how property should pass, and what should happen to a business interest. The consultation is where those questions are worked through.

A trust only governs the assets actually transferred into it. Funding is the step where property is retitled and beneficiary designations are reviewed, and a plan that is signed but never funded may not achieve what the client intended.

For clients who own a business, the plan can coordinate business interests with the trust — including assignments of business interests — so the plan reflects everything you have built. Business formation services are also available alongside the estate planning practice.

A complete California estate plan also answers a different question: who acts for you if you cannot act for yourself? Durable powers of attorney name the person who manages financial affairs during incapacity, and advance health care directives record your medical wishes and name the person who speaks with physicians. Preparing these documents while there is no emergency is what keeps decisions in the hands of the people you chose — rather than leaving your family to seek court authority later.

To begin, schedule an estate planning consultation. Consultation and document-preparation fees depend on the scope of services; the fee and the included work are explained before representation begins and confirmed in a written agreement.

Consultation and document-preparation fees depend on the scope of services. The fee and included work are explained before representation begins and confirmed in a written agreement.

This page is general information about California matters and is not legal advice about your situation. Whether representation is available depends on the facts of the individual case.