UNDERSTANDING ADVANCED HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES (Originally Published October 2013) WHAT IS AN ADVANCED HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE? An Advanced Health Care Directive (AHCD), also called a “Living Will”, is a document in which you can specify now who you want to make health care decisions for you in the future in the event that you are […]
UNDERSTANDING POWERS OF ATTORNEY (Originally Published October 2013) WHAT IS A POWER OF ATTORNEY? Some times in life, we want to give another person the legal authority to make decisions for us when we cannot make the decision ourselves. The document that is used to do this is called a “Power of Attorney”… essentially authorizing […]
(Originally published Sept. 2013) UNDERSTANDING WILLS AND TRUSTS WHAT IS A WILL? Most of us have heard the term “Will” or “Last Will and Testament” but many don’t know what that exactly means. A Will is simply a document in which you designate who will get your real and personal property upon your death and […]
Now that the economy is recovering, many people are taking a look at their assets and looking for ways to preserve what they have and how to provide for their loved ones when their gone. That process is called “Estate Planning”. Here at BPE Law, we’ve been providing Estate Planning services to our clients for […]
As we should all remember, late in the night on New Year’s Eve, Congress and the President reached a brief stop-gap agreement to keep the Nation operating while they worked on the Budget. Unfortunately, in the months that followed the political infighting stopped any resolution and so, a drastic series of cuts automatically took effect […]
This economic recession has been forcing budget cuts and business closings everywhere. One place that these cuts are being felt especially hard is in the legal justice system where access to the Courts is getting harder then ever. For several years, the Sacramento Courts, along with the rest of the State, have been struggling to […]
For several years, we have been guiding our clients in creating Revocable Living Trusts to avoid Probate and minimize estate taxes. But over the past several months, we’ve had increasing demand to provide Probate services in real estate transactions. In this Blog, I’ll help you understand the Probate process and let you know when you […]
