1. Living Trust: A living trust is a legal document that allows you to transfer your assets to a trust during your lifetime, and then distribute them to your beneficiaries after your death. This can help you avoid costly and time-consuming probate proceedings, while also providing greater control over how your assets are distributed.

2. Amendments / Codicils: As your life circumstances change, it may be necessary to update your estate plan to reflect your current wishes. Our team can help you draft amendments or codicils to your existing estate planning documents, ensuring that your wishes are always up-to-date.

3. Power of Attorney: A power of attorney is a legal document that grants someone else the authority to act on your behalf in financial or legal matters. This can be especially important in the event that you become incapacitated or unable to make decisions for yourself.

4. Advanced Healthcare Directive: This legal document allows you to specify your healthcare preferences and appoint someone to make medical decisions for you if you are unable to do so. By creating an advanced healthcare directive, you can ensure that your wishes are respected and that you receive the medical care you desire.

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With BY THE PEOPLE℠, you can inexpensively plan and prepare your estate through sound legal documentation in a variety of areas. Our services included living trust, amendments/codicils, power of attorney, and more. Contact us today and see why so many turn to BY THE PEOPLE℠ for our estate planning preparation services.

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Estate planning is one of those things in most people’s life that they have on their list to get do, but sometimes don’t. In California estate planning can be important to avoid the Probate Court Process when transferring assets. It allows people to specify their wishes as well as property distribution. Estate planning with a living trust is something you don’t typically need…until you do, but when you do need a living trust, and it’s too late, you’re likely leaving your loved ones a lengthy court process.

In comparison to having to deal with the probate court process that could take years, having a living trust completed can take as long as a week or two. Living trusts can be prepared for a flat fee while the probate court process will have filing fees, newspaper publication fees, bonds and attorney fees that start in the thousands and can easily land in the tens of thousands upon completion. Living trusts can be amended and updated when the trustee chooses to, and transferring property with a living trust can be done in days with a few documents being completed.

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Living trusts often come in packages so that they include other important documents to avoid probate and help ease the management of assets and decisions. While living trust packages include a series of documents, they are typically completed all together, signed and notarized and become effective right away. Common documents included in a living trust package would be Power of Attorneys for designating an agent to act if incapacitated, but still alive. This avoids a probate conservatorship. Advance Healthcare Directives (medical power of attorney), which can also avoid a conservatorship court process. Pour Over Wills are often included to capture any personal property not addressed in the Living Trust and allows for the nomination of a guardian for minor children. Most importantly a Trust Transfer deed which is what takes any real property and gives ownership of it to the living trust. While each of these documents serves its own unique function, together they make up what is commonly found in Living Trust Packages.

The medical treatment you wish to receive in the event of a catastrophe is one of the most important and personal decisions you can make, but if you lack a living will and are in a persistent vegetative state, the burden of those decisions may be left to others like family members or even the court.

Living trusts often come in packages so that they include other important documents to avoid probate and help ease the management of assets and decisions. While living trust packages include a series of documents, they are typically completed all together, signed and notarized and become effective right away. Common documents included in a living trust package would be Power of Attorneys for designating an agent to act if incapacitated, but still alive. This avoids a probate conservatorship. Advance Healthcare Directives (medical power of attorney), which can also avoid a conservatorship court process. Pour Over Wills are often included to capture any personal property not addressed in the Living Trust and allows for the nomination of a guardian for minor children. Most importantly a Trust Transfer deed which is what takes any real property and gives ownership of it to the living trust. While each of these documents serves its own unique function, together they make up what is commonly found in Living Trust Packages.

Certain medical treatments and forms of life-support, furthermore, can create enormous expenses for your next-of-kin or even violate your personal and religious beliefs.

Having a living will in place is essential for making your desires clear in case you are one day incapable of expressing them yourself.