Estate Planning Attorney San Diego

Avoiding probate is by far the most common reason why people seek out the advice of an estate planning attorney.

The significant loss of one’s estate to the payment of state and/or federal estate taxes or state inheritance taxes is a great motivator for many people to put an estate plan together.

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An Estate Planning Attorney Helps Avoid Probate

Probate is the court-supervised process of authenticating a last will and testament if the deceased made one.

It includes locating and determining the value of the decedent’s assets, paying his final bills and taxes, then distributing the remainder of the estate to his rightful heirs or beneficiaries.

Each U.S. state has specific laws in place to determine what’s required to probate an estate.

Steve Bliss as your estate planning attorney is your Trust Administration expert

Effectively resolved probate or trust administration also requires expert accounting and tax preparation.

A trust administration is NOT a court-supervised process, yet its ultimate goal is also the transfer of property from an individual who has died (the “decedent”) to that individual’s beneficiaries who are identified in his/her revocable living trust.

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