One of the frequent questions asked of Buffington Law Firm's trust and estate litigation attorneys is whether a successor-trustee of a revocable "living" trust can be removed by a court action. As discussed in recent Blog articles, California living trusts are...
Month: November 2018
Dynasty Trusts — Often a Problem and How to Solve Them
Buffington Law Firm's trust dispute attorneys have frequently assisted clients in dealing with problems involving the removal of problem successor-trustees or the need to force the dissolution of a trust. One form of trust that is particularly prone to trust disputes...
Dynasty Trusts and Improperly Behaving Living Trust Successor-Trustees
Buffington Law Firm's team of Trust and Estate Litigation attorneys have decades of experience in dealing with out-of-control successor-trustees of California living trusts. This is an increasingly common problem in California as trusts, rather than wills, have...
Living Trusts, Firing Successor-Trustees and “Trust Protectors”
Buffington Law Firm's team of trust dispute litigation attorneys has decades of experience in dealing with problem situations involving California Living or "revocable" trusts. Many of the problems that we are asked to solve deal with situations in which, for some...
Trust Litigation is Increasingly Common as Families Move from Wills to Trusts
Buffington Law Firm's Trust Litigation attorneys have been serving Southern California's trust litigation legal market since 1998. Until perhaps 15 years or so ago, most families conveyed the inheritance by way of a will, i.e. "Last Will and Testament." Wills...
Misbehaving Trustees are a Common Source of Trust Disputes
Buffington Law Firm's Trust dispute attorneys have broad experience in dealing with cases in which a trust successor-trustee is failing to properly carry out his or her duties as trustee. As many people know, trusts are a legal device that can allow a decedent's...
Court of Appeal Affirms Buffington Law Firm Trust Litigation Victory in Published Opinion
Buffington Law Firm's trust litigation team won a significant courtroom victory in a 2017 case "Orange Catholic Foundation versus Rosario Arvizu." In this case, Buffington Law Firm defended the trustee of a trust, Rosario Arvizu, against various breach of fiduciary...
Part II — Important 2018 Trends in California Trust Dispute Litigation
Buffington Law Firm's trust litigation team has broad experience in litigating trust disputes. In last week's Blog article we noted that a recent Court of Appeal case, Barefoot v. Jennings, will provide controlling authority requiring significant changes to how...