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Michelle C. Lerman

Wills & Probate, Trusts, Estate Planning, Administrative Law
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  41 Years

Michelle Collins Lerman

Trusts, Estate Planning, Estate, Wills
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  41 Years

Robert Lewis Harrison

Real Estate, Wills & Probate, Trusts, Gift Taxation, Estate Planning
Status:  In Good Standing           

Stafford Warwick Keegin

Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Gift Taxation, Business
Status:  In Good Standing           

Nadine Reiss Aarsheim

Trusts, Estate Planning
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  30 Years

Henry Daniel Froneberger

Commercial Real Estate, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Business
Status:  In Good Standing           

Woodford G. Rowland

Tax, Litigation, Trusts, Gift Taxation
Status:  In Good Standing           

John Anthony Scheuring

Real Estate, Gift Taxation, Business, Contract
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  22 Years

Patricia Mary Tobin

Estate Planning, Elder Law, Trusts, Estate, Wills
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  47 Years

Joan Catherine Rodman

Other, International, Gift Taxation, Criminal
Status:  In Good Standing           Licensed:  29 Years

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LEGAL TERMS

RESIDUARY BENEFICIARY

A person who receives any property by a will or trust that is not specifically left to another designated beneficiary. For example, if Antonio makes a will leav... (more...)
A person who receives any property by a will or trust that is not specifically left to another designated beneficiary. For example, if Antonio makes a will leaving his home to Edwina and the remainder of his property to Elmo, then Elmo is the residuary beneficiary.

TRUST DEED

The most common method of financing real estate purchases in California (most other states use mortgages). The trust deed transfers the title to the property to... (more...)
The most common method of financing real estate purchases in California (most other states use mortgages). The trust deed transfers the title to the property to a trustee -- often a title company -- who holds it as security for a loan. When the loan is paid off, the title is transferred to the borrower. The trustee will not become involved in the arrangement unless the borrower defaults on the loan. At that point, the trustee can sell the property and pay the lender from the proceeds.

SWEARING MATCH

A case that turns on the word of one witness versus another. The outcome of a swearing match usually depends on whom the jury finds most trustworthy.

GRANTOR

Someone who creates a trust. Also called a trustor or settlor.

RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES

An exceedingly complex legal doctrine that limits the amount of time that property can be controlled after death by a person's instructions in a will. For examp... (more...)
An exceedingly complex legal doctrine that limits the amount of time that property can be controlled after death by a person's instructions in a will. For example, a person would not be allowed to leave property to her husband for his life, then to her children for their lives, then to her grandchildren. The gift would potentially go to the grandchildren at a point too remote in time.

BEQUEATH

A legal term sometimes used in wills that means 'leave' -- for example, 'I bequeath my garden tools to my brother-in-law, Buster Jenkins.'

INTESTATE SUCCESSION

The method by which property is distributed when a person dies without a valid will. Each state's law provides that the property be distributed to the closest s... (more...)
The method by which property is distributed when a person dies without a valid will. Each state's law provides that the property be distributed to the closest surviving relatives. In most states, the surviving spouse, children, parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, and next of kin inherit, in that order.

TITLE COMPANY

A company that issues title insurance.

LETTERS TESTAMENTARY

The document given to an executor by the probate court, authorizing the executor to settle the estate according to either a will or the state's intestate succes... (more...)
The document given to an executor by the probate court, authorizing the executor to settle the estate according to either a will or the state's intestate succession laws.

SAMPLE LEGAL CASES

Murphy v. Murphy

... The probate court has discretion, circumscribed by the statutory scheme, to order a "substituted judgment" that authorizes a conservator on behalf of a conservatee to take necessary or desirable action to facilitate estate planning, when a reasonably prudent person in the ...

In re Estate of Young

... her lawyer at the time, Dennis Burns. Mr. Burns represented her for 15 years for estate planning purposes and a bankruptcy of one of Young's businesses, Green Thumb Nursery. In the 1991 estate plan, Charles was expressly ...

Chang v. Lederman

... 2. The Law Regarding Liability for Negligence in Estate Planning to Intended or Potential Beneficiaries. ... Nevertheless, the attorney prepared new estate planning documents that fundamentally changed the plan and made a substantial gift to Michael. ...