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For parents with minor children, choosing a guardian for your minor children is one of the most difficult choices to make.  Facing the possibility that a parent may predecease his or her minor child is unfathomable.  However, if you have minor children, these choices are necessary and having these documents in place will ensure that...

A professional fiduciary may serve in many different roles.  They can serve by court appointment as guardians, conservators and personal representatives of estates.  They also serve by agreement as trustees, representative payees or as agents under powers of attorney.   Professional fiduciaries provide critical services to seniors, disabled persons, and children. They manage matters for clients...

It is true that the state of California (under Probate Code Section 6111) does recognize a handwritten will which is referred to as a holographic will.  The requirements of a holographic will are as follows: The entire will must be entirely written in the testator’s own handwriting – there can be nothing typed or printed)....