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By: Roger J. Buffington, Esq. In this brief Blog article, we will explain what a Trust petition is, and what it does. We will also explain how this relates to "avoiding probate" which of course is one of the main objectives of creating a trust. While this may sound...
Buffington Law Firm's Trust litigation attorneys often deal with situations in which our clients need to challenge a trust or a trust amendment. This is often a situation in which the client is, or was, a beneficiary of a trust, but somehow the trust was changed in a...
By: Roger J. Buffington, Esq. People often ask Buffington Law Firm's litigation team to try to get a lawsuit "thrown out" before trial. Some lawsuits are outright frivolous. Not infrequently the people that our Firm represents are quite confident that a lawsuit in...
By: Roger J. Buffington Buffington Law Firm's Orange County Breach of Contract attorneys handle cases involving actual or alleged breach of contract using a variety of different approaches. Generally, in a breach of contract lawsuit the best approach to achieving...
By: Roger J. Buffington, Esq. Buffington Law Firm's business litigation and breach of contract attorneys recently won a resounding victory against Interactive Brokers LLC in a FINRA Arbitration action (Roger J. Buffington, Esq. and Rye Mhtar, Esq.). The case known as...
By: Roger J. Buffington, Esq. Buffington Law Firm's California trust litigation attorneys frequently are involved in either bringing or defending against trust contests. A "trust contest" is a situation in which a party brings a lawsuit seeking to nullify all or a...
By Roger J. Buffington, Esq. In California trust litigation, unlike general civil litigation, by statute in almost all circumstances the claimant ("Petitioner") is not entitled to a jury trial and instead the case is decided by the Probate Court and judge. The judge...
By: Roger J. Buffington, Esq. Buffington Law Firm's Trust litigation attorneys have often litigated cases involving issues of undue influence. We discuss undue influence in several articles on our Firm website. California Welfare and Institutions Code section...
By Roger J. Buffington, Esq. One of the problems that beneficiaries of California Living Trusts sometimes face is a scenario in which the trustmaker ("Trustor") is still alive but is known to be very weak of mind, possibly incompetent. The fear is often that someone...
By Roger J. Buffington, Esq. Buffington Law Firm's trust litigation attorneys often handle cases involving claims where a party alleges that someone committed undue influence against another person to cause that person to alter his or her living trust to favor the...