In their article for The Recorder, Shareholders Andrew Verriere & Ryan Szczepanik discuss how California courts remain beleaguered by budgetary constraints. The courts lack the resources to process the large volume of trust and estate related matters. Even uncontested matters are being filed at rates exponentially higher than just a few years ago. Litigants have an alternative when facing these unavoidable delays: their right to refer matters to a private judge for resolution.
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Ryan Szczepanik and Michael Gerson will discuss a litigator’s perspective to handling disputes to fiduciary accounting.
Hartog, Baer & Hand is excited to announce the elevation of David D. Little and Andrew V. Verriere to Principals, effective January 1, 2020.
More people than ever are becoming elderly with diminishing capacity, an absence of close family members nearby to care for them, and the potential for disfavoring heirs in asset distribution.