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What is a Trustee?
A Trustee is a person or organization responsible for managing someone else’s property or money through a Trust. Firstly, a Trustee must hold, work, invest,…
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What is a Fiduciary Duty?
With the recent decision of the California Supreme Court in the case involving the Estate of Giraldin, beneficiaries now have even greater rights against trustees.
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Difference between the Executor and Trustee of a California estate: What are my responsibilities?
During the administration of an estate in California, assets may be divided between a trust and the decedent’s probate estate. Assets held in the trust will be overseen by the trustee appointed in that document.
What assets go through probate in California?
Not all of a decedent’s assets will go through the California probate process. If the deceased had no titled or significant assets to his or her name, then the probate process may not even be necessary.
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California Per Stirpes, Per Capita, Right of Representation
Usually a will or trust describes the types of distribution for inheritance: “per stirpes,” “per capita by generation,” and “by right of representation.”