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William Daniel Powell is a San Diego Estate Planning Attorney and blogs regularly on subjects relating to Estate Planning, helping families and individuals with Estate Planning needs.
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We are Estate Planning attorneys in the San Diego area. Wills, Trusts, and other Estate Planning instruments are chosen depending on the client’s wishes and the nature and extent of the estate.
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Was Your Living Trust Designed Just for You?
May 6, 2017Perhaps you already had an estate plan drafted for you that includes all the proper documents including a Revocable Living Trust, Pour-Over Will, HIPPA Release, Durable Power of Attorney, and an Advance Healthcare Directive. Further, perhaps the funding was completed and deed preparation and filing for your real estate was done so that your home ...Divorce and Estate Planning
April 23, 2016Divorce is a mess. I know first-hand. There are several things you should consider after some of the smoke clears. If you don’t have an estate plan, now would be a great time to get it done. If you do have an estate plan, you will want to make some changes.How do I Create a Will?
April 16, 2016A Will is a document that is drafted and executed (signed and witnessed) in accordance with California law that is used to dispose of a person’s property after their death. Some other characteristics of a Will is that it only “speaks on death” which can be interpreted to mean that it has no true significance ...Asset Protection – Keeping the Inheritance Safe Part 2
January 10, 2016How many ways are there to distribute an inheritance? Basically there are two ways: outright, and in Trust. An outright gift provides no protection, and no direction. Now, if you have a beneficiary that is absolutely fantastic with handling money, and you have no concerns about creditors, predators, divorce, the possibility of losing means tested public ...Comparing a Will to a Living Trust Estate Plan Part 2
January 9, 2016To pick up from where we left off in Part 1, here is what we are comparing with Wills and Living Trusts. Part 1 of this Blog covers reasons A and B. Part 2 covers C and D. Let’s look at these reasons and compare Wills and Revocable Living Trusts A. To manage and ...Asset Protection – Keeping the Inheritance Safe Part 1
January 9, 2016As discussed elsewhere on my website and in my Blog, I have mentioned why people create Estate Plans. They do so for the benefits that Estate Planning provides. There are many benefits to creating a Revocable Living Trust, but we can condense them to four reasons or categories. These reasons are: To ...
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