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  • Setting Aside a Trust: Did Someone Take Your Inheritance?

    From the Desk of San Diego Will and Trust Attorney, Kristina Hess. Research and contribution by Klint LeBlang Are you worried about your family after life and want to ensure you provide for them? Do you want to avoid the costly, time-consuming process of probate? A living trust provides an effective solution. A trust is…

  • Number One Reason Why Living Trusts “Fail”

    From the desk of San Diego estate lawyer, Kristina Hess San Diegans, you may have heard that the only foolproof way to avoid your loved ones having to pass through the time consuming (think 1.5 years if no contests and everything runs smoothly), public, and expensive San Diego Probate Court process is to set up…

  • How Do I Change my Trust? Here’s What Not to Do

    From the Desk of San Diego Estate Attorney, Kristina Hess Polly and Sam from Del Mar, California want to know how to change their revocable living trust.  They created a joint trust over 10 years ago and their life has changed. They had another child, and the persons they selected as their successor trustees need…

  • Don’t Wait Until You Are Stranded in Your Car Before Getting Your Affairs in Order

    From the Desk of San Diego Trust and Probate Attorney, Kristina Hess I heard this story on the radio this morning about a man in Montana who was stuck in his car for three days!  His car got stranded in a snow storm. Every hour he played 15 minutes of angry birds and ran his car’s…

  • The Basics of Trusts and Revocable Living Trusts

    From the Desk of San Diego Will and Trust Attorney, Kristina Hess: Sometimes, when I talk with people in San Diego, Del Mar, Encinitas, Solana Beach, Rancho Santa Fe, and La Jolla about estate planning, they are confused about the difference between a will and a trust and want to know the basics of trusts…

  • Why a Living Trust? San Diego Trust Attorney

    The Nitty Gritty of Revocable Living Trusts A revocable living trust is a trust that holds assets.  It is what’s called a “grantor trust” in the San Diego estate planning business.  That means that the beneficiary of the trust is the same person who created the trust.  Revocable living trusts are also unique in a…

  • Why Trusts Fail

    From the desk of Kristina Hess, Estate Planning Attorney in beautiful San Diego (Del Mar/Carmel Valley area to be exact!)… but serving all of San Diego County and California (virtually)… The question of the day is… Why Trusts Fail. Now, you may be saying to yourself, “I didn’t know trusts fail.”  How can a trust…

  • The Danger of Do-It-Yourself Wills and Living Trusts

    From the Desk of Carmel Valley (San Diego) Trust Attorney, Kristina Hess Here is what you need to know if you have been tempted or, if like me (before my current profession) have attempted to prepare your own will, trust, or other estate planning documents. Buyer Beware — you get what you pay for. There…

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