Law Office of Benjamin V. Platon II

 

My practice focuses on Estate Planning - Wills, Trusts and Special Needs Trusts,
 Probate, including Guardianship & Conservatorship
and Arbitration & Mediation.

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FREE-No-Obligation Estate Planning Consultation

Estate planning preserves assets, reduces administration costs, saves taxes,
and protects the people you love.

Office Address: 10940 Fair Oaks Blvd. Ste. 100, Fair Oaks, CA 95628-5966
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Telephone:  916-967-3511           FAX:  916-967-3514
Email: BPlaton @ PlatonLaw.com
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Estate Planning

Most folks think of estate planning as writing their Last Will & Testament but, estate planning is much more than that. Estate planning is planning for your lifetime. It allows you to make decisions now that you may not have the ability to make in the future. It can help you control of your life in the event of a catastrophic injury or illness. 

When should a person think about estate planning? There are certain milestones in our life when we should seriously consider planning.


When we become adults our parents can no longer make decisions for us.

When we get married we have our spouse to think about. 

When we have children we have to think about who could legally care for them if we could not. 

When we retire we discover we have different priorities of life such as what happens if become incapacitated? How can I make my assets last through my final years? Who should I leave my assets too. 

Any one of these moments in our life should make us want to get our estate plans in order. 

Depending upon your situation an estate plan might only include your Advanced Health Care Directive and your Will, for most families a Revocable Living Trust with the proper supporting legal documents might be better advised, and a few families would be well advised to investigate Family Limited Partnerships.

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Probate

Probate is the legal process which transfers our assets to our heirs and beneficiaries. In California, it takes approximately nine (9) months to go through the probate process.

If we pass without a will and we owned certain types of assets like real property, Probate would be required to transfer that property to our heirs.

If we've created a Will, Probate ensures that our property passes to the beneficiaries we named in our will.

Proper estate planning for some families includes Probate, but we can also put together a plan which avoids the expense and time of the Probate proceedings. 

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Guardianship & Conservatorship

Guardianship & Conservatorship are the legal procedures we take when it is necessary to assume control over the life of another individual. Guardianship for minors, Conservatorship for adults.

The most common instances of invoking these processes are when a child is orphaned or the child's parents are unable to properly care for the child or  when an adult becomes unable to care for themselves either from physical or mental infirmity.

Proper estate planning can also avoid these legal proceedings and ensure that the person you choose to handle your affairs, if necessary, can do so without going through the court system.

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Arbitration & Mediation

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Last Updated: October 28, 2011

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