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When trust litigation attorneys examine the factual and legal basis for whether grounds exist to contest a California Living Trust, usually the threshold issue concerns the mental status of the trustmaker ("trustor") when he or she created the instrument to be...
An increasingly common issue that Buffington Law Firm's trust litigation attorneys are having to deal with concerns the ownership of parents' bank accounts after the parents have passed away. The best practice is for bank accounts to be titled in the name of their...
As discussed in our Blog article last week, although California Living Trusts are intended to avoid Court involvement, once a trust petition activates such involvement, courts have broad equitable powers to issue orders to carry out the court's supervision of the...
Most of us have been reading about the recent FTX crypto currency investment scandal. It appears that what was going on is that FTX was taking investor funds (from ordinary people like us but mostly from sophisticated “pro” investors like Sequoia Capital, Softbank,...
Buffington Law Firm's Elder Abuse and Trust litigation attorneys have frequently dealt with cases of financial elder abuse involving undue influence exercised against a vulnerable senior or dependent adult, by a professional caregiver. Frequently these cases involve...
Buffington Law Firm’s trust litigation attorneys often deal with what are commonly known as “Trust Contests.” In this brief article I thought that it would be helpful to discuss what is, and what is not, a “Trust Contest.” Our trust litigation attorneys are often...
Trust disputes have become far more common in the past two decades as the Baby Boom generation (and others) have come to inherit much more commonly via trust. In earlier decades many or most estates passed to the beneficiaries by will. There are many differences...
Many businesses and consumers in Newport Beach and throughout California contend with unfair competition from time to time. Unfortunately, only a tiny percentage takes legal action to protect their investment and interests while pursuing the resulting damages. Of...
Companies invest a lot of money in recruiting and training the right talent. Your organization's human resources department exists to help you find and retain the best possible talent, and a lot of your company's operational costs stem from paying for employees. Of...
It's the scenario that no potential home buyer wants to think about: you’re ready to sign the agreement for a house, and the seller gets cold feet. Suddenly, they don't want to sell after all. So, what happens when you are ready to buy and the homeowner decides not to...