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President Releases 2011 Tax Returns To the Public: The President and Michelle Obama released their 2011 tax returns to the public. Of course tax planning and estate planning go hand in hand. President and Mrs. Obama received income from his salary and book royalties. They deducted $49,000 from book royalties for a simplified employee pension […]

I know people have a new year’s resolution of getting their California estate plan done.  Let’s put a big CHECK next to that one! Contact your California Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust, and Probate law. If your attorney is not a Certified Specialist you might think about finding one. Get your revocable living trust, […]

It’s November 11, 2011 so I just want to say thank you to all who have served in our military. If you want to talk about VA benefits for nursing homes and other survivor benefits contact me.  Again, THANK YOU!  -John

This has little to do with California estate planning, trust law or probate. However, I just spent 15 minutes on a live chat with the Comcast “customer service” people dealing with a really trivial issue. The person was not trying to solve my problem but rather putting up blockades.  Though we are a law firm […]

This is my first official blog, I mean blawog, link to my Facebook account so my apologies if you are not interested in hearing aboutCaliforniaprobate, trust and estate planning.  I like to think it’s a topic relevant to everybody.  I mean, it will happen to most of us some day….  I have been blogging, on these topics, for […]

Today is the grand opening of the Sacramento Children’s Museum.  My wife, Kathleen, is the founder of this museum. I still remember the day in late 2004 or early 2005 that we were driving home from the Bay Area, having enjoyed our visit to Berkelely’s Habitot, we were around Dixon or Davis, and she said, […]

As you saw yesterday I want to try and blog about more of the California probate code section in coming days, weeks and months. There are so many incredible sections full of information there. Ok, let me back up a little bit. My parents were both attorneys. My dad was so into being an attorney […]

I know this is off topic but it caught me by surprise so thought I would tell you. My neighbor works in the construction industry; building bridges and stuff. He recently told us about this new law which, as of July 1, 2011, required us to have a carbon monoxide detector in our house. I, […]

Like most things in life preparing wills and trusts is something you can not learn in one day. In fact, you can’t learn it in one year.  I was reminded of this last week at a continuing education seminar I attended. I have been doing this type of work since 1994 and, in fact, been […]