Buffington Law Firm's California Living Trust litigation team often deals with situations involving difficult or unreasonable trust beneficiaries. Being trustee of a living trust, particularly once the trust becomes irrevocable, can be a difficult and thankless job...
Perhaps the most common type of California Living Trust litigation involves a misbehaving trustee or successor-trustee. Buffington Law Firm's trust litigation team has dealt with many trust litigation cases involving California Living Trust trustees who fail or...
When two or more people get into a business partnership, the primary goal is usually to combine your resources so you can grow your bottom line. However, it is not uncommon for things to fail to go as planned. Sometimes, one of the parties may yield to greed and lose...
Buffington Law Firm's California Trust litigation attorneys frequently deal with situations in which the Trustee of a California Living Trust refuses to distribute Trust assets at the appropriate time. Often, the appropriate time is a reasonable time following the...
A business partnership can be a great idea for those seeking to grow their enterprises while sharing some of the responsibilities that come with business ownership. However, it can also be a source of trouble if one or some of the partners fail to live up to their...
When you get into a business partnership, you and your partners have similar goals: to grow the business and make profits. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for business relationships to break down for numerous reasons. When a party makes decisions that are...
Serving as a trustee isn't particularly fun. It means careful and even pedantic compliance with written instructions and state law, as well as many hours of asset management and paperwork. You may feel grateful that someone else stepped into that role so that you...
Small businesses sometimes have a difficult time in their local markets, especially when larger competitors come in and try to take the market share. Big businesses often have the opportunity to reach larger populations and may even have the power to take ideas from...
Buffington Law Firm's Trust Litigation attorneys frequently deal with situations involving a secretive successor-trustee. The usual scenario is that once the second Trustor (trustmaker) of a Trust passes, someone else become successor-trustee of the Trust. Often...
If you are a trust beneficiary, you expect the trustee to always act in your best interests when managing the trust. After all, they are legally obligated to do so as they owe you a fiduciary duty. So, what happens in a case where the trustee wastes or steals the...