If you own your home in California you should have a revocable trust and an estate plan to avoid the substantial expense of probate, protect your assets and ensure your beneficiaries receive the ...

Effective April 1, 2025, Assembly Bill 2016 (AB 2016) creates a new probate shortcut allowing primary residences in California, if certain conditions are met, to pass to the decedent’s ...

The Nevada County Law Library, in collaboration with the Madelyn Helling Library, continues its Noon Time Legal Seminars by presenting a free seminar on “Understanding Probate in California,” by local ...

California’s Assembly Bill 2016 – which goes into effect April 1 – introduces significant positive changes to the probate process, particularly for primary residences. The law raises the value ...