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If you’re like most parents, you probably like to keep your teens on a “need to know basis” — especially when it comes to your finances and the details of your estate.

If you are like most older people, you have lived a long and fulfilling life, and have probably collected items during that journey that have become very sentimental to you.

If you are in need of some free legal advice, I want to invite you to attend one of the many public workshops I will be speaking at over the next month.

Before your son or daughter packs up for summer vacation or even their first semester of college, I want you to think about what it means having a child who is an “adult” in the eyes of the law.

Contrary to popular belief, a person’s debt is not automatically canceled out upon their passing. As you will soon find out, all outstanding bills will eventually need to be paid out of the decedent’s estate.

"When my husband and I bought our house recently our real estate agent asked us how we wanted to hold title – as joint tenants or community property. What is the difference and what is the best way for a married couple to take title?"

As a Sacramento estates lawyer, I know that far too many area parents set themselves up for a devastating situation by not having the right emergency plans in place should the unthinkable occur.

It’s bad enough that you have to think about death when planning your estate, but what’s worse are all of these hardly-pronounceable words of which you have no idea what they mean. Beneficiary? Fiduciary? Revocable Living Trusts?