Protecting Your Legacy Includes Protecting Your Healthcare Wishes In the world of estate planning, California's most discerning families understand that protecting your legacy goes beyond distributing assets—it includes ensuring your healthcare wishes are honored when...
Wills
The Role of Durable Power of Attorney in Healthcare Decisions: Protecting Your Legacy With Precision
Your estate is more than just assets—it's your legacy, built over a lifetime of hard work and success. Yet many affluent individuals focus exclusively on financial aspects of estate planning while overlooking a critical component: healthcare decision-making. A Durable...
How to Communicate Your End-of-Life Wishes to Family and Healthcare Providers
Protecting Your Legacy Through Thoughtful Advance Planning Your estate is more than just assets—it’s your legacy, built over a lifetime of hard work and success. Ensuring your wishes are honored means more than protecting your finances; it also includes making...
Common Mistakes to Avoid When Drafting a Living Will: Protecting Your Healthcare Wishes
Your estate is more than just assets—it's your legacy, built over a lifetime of hard work and success. While many focus on protecting their financial assets, healthcare planning through proper advance directives deserves equal attention. A living will stands as your...
The Legal Validity of Living Wills Across Different States: What High-Net-Worth Families Need to Know
Protecting Your Healthcare Decisions No Matter Where Life Takes You Your estate planning documents serve as the foundation for protecting your legacy and ensuring your wishes are honored—both during life and after. While most high-net-worth individuals understand the...
Incorporating Medical and Technological Advances into Your Living Will: A Framework for Future-Ready Estate Planning
In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, your medical directives need to keep pace with technological innovations. For California's discerning families, standard advance directives no longer provide adequate protection for your healthcare wishes. At Klosek...
California Probate Executor’s Duties
In California, if the combined value of a decedent’s real and personal property is $166,250 or less, various methods are available for asset collection without a full estate administration. The probate proceeding to follow to collect the small estate depends on the...
Will Revocation Attorneys in California
In California, if the combined value of a decedent’s real and personal property is $166,250 or less, various methods are available for asset collection without a full estate administration. The probate proceeding to follow to collect the small estate depends on the...
Figuring Out What to Do When a Parent Dies Without a Will in California
If a parent should die intestate (without a will), the children might not know what to do about the parent's assets. Fortunately, if you live in California, clear intestate succession laws exist that direct how to share a deceased parent's property even without a...
How to Change an Executor of a Will and Avoid Problems
You may choose to change the executor of your will because the original executor died or, perhaps, rejected the responsibility. You can also change a will’s executor if you believe someone else will do a better job. If you don’t know how to change the executor of your...