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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Is this a good time to update your estate plan? Any time is a good time for review, and an unanticipated consequence of Sheltering in Place may be that individuals will do so.
In an increasingly paperless world, is it time to update the law to allow electronic wills?
The Validity of a trust amendment was at issue in the recent Haggerty v. Thornton opinion from the California Supreme Court, which resolved a split of authority among the California Circuit Courts.