For a California trustee, the process of invoking the creditors claim procedure in trust administration works as follows: A notice to creditors on the decedent’s behalf is published to a local newspaper.
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You are not required to use drafting attorney services as executor or trustee, and you may not be required to use their services at all.
It’s possible that the estate you are set to inherit from needs to go through California probate.
If you haven’t received your rightful inheritance, chances are the reason relates to one or more of the following issues. Read more here.
Choosing your California probate lawyer can be an efficient process if you know what qualities to look for in your attorney. You will want a lawyer who focuses their practice on probate and probate litigation; not one who only dabbles in these areas.
Each co-trustee has the right to hire their own attorney. The California Probate Code (which is the law that governs trusts) provides each trustee, or co-trustee, to hire their own lawyer. The other co-trustee has no right or ability to stop his fellow co-trustee from hiring his or her own probate lawyer.
Read about the main problems your survivors could encounter if you don’t leave them any instructions regarding your California succession here.
Under California probate law, if you are the personal representative of the estate, you may transfer the vehicles to their new owners without having to wait until the estate is closed.
Generally, a person’s trust does not have to be filed with the court when they die. This is different than their will which must be lodge with the Superior Court for the county in which they resided at the time they died. Learn more about when a trust has to be filed with the court here.
If the trustee of a family member’s trust won’t give you any information, send a written request to them. The trustee is obligated to provide each beneficiary with information.