John Hartog explains Common Estate Planning Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

If one becomes incapacitated and does not have the right legal documents in place, no one can legally make health care and financial decisions for that person. What can you do to avoid this scenario?

Married couples often don’t give much thought to the characterization of their property as community or separate. In general, community property is all real or personal property acquired by a married person during the marriage. Separate property is all property owned by the person before the marriage, all property acquired by the person after marriage by gift, bequest or devise, and the rents and profits from the person’s separate property.

HBH congratulates Veronica Diaz, a first-year student at Santa Clara University School of Law, for being the first recipient of the firm’s inaugural Diversity Scholarship.