Buffington Law Firm's Trust dispute attorneys have more than two decades of experience in living trust litigation. As many people know, revocable or "living" trusts have become extremely popular in California and have to a significant degree replaced wills as the...
Revocable or "Living" Trusts have become wildly popular in California as an alternate mechanism to wills for transferring a family's wealth to the next generation. Lawyers who practice estate planning often tout trusts as a simpler and cheaper way to handle an...
Buffington Law Firm's trust dispute attorneys have been asked to solve many problems relating to misbehaving problem successor-trustees of revocable or "living" trusts. One of the most common problems with trusts once the trustors die and a successor-trustee takes...
Buffington Law Firm's Trust and Elder Law litigation attorneys are sometimes faced with situations that deal with the issue as to whether a person has the mental capacity to make a contract or, alternatively, whether that person posesses testamentary capacity -- the...
Buffington Law Firm's California Trust Litigation attorneys have handled numerous cases involving so-called "Dynasty Trusts" as well as alternative forms of estate plans similar to these. A "Dynasty Trust" is an estate plan in which the trust does not simply...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...