Practice Areas

Comprehensive estate planning covers nearly every aspect of life. It begins with protecting yourself and your personal dignity, and extends to protecting your loved ones and your hard-earned assets.

Follow the links below to learn more about our Estate Planning Services in these specific areas:

Estate Planning Services

Learn more about the estate planning process.

Fundamental Estate Planning

There are many legal strategies involved in estate planning, including wills, revocable living trusts, irrevocable trusts, durable powers of attorney, and health care documents. Learn more about the estate planning process.


Business Planning Services

Learn more about asset protection.

Asset Protection

Asset protection planning involves making prudent decisions today to protect yourself, your business, and your hard-earned assets from loss due to lawsuits, creditors or bankruptcies.
Find out how we can help you protect your assets today.

 

Learn more about business planning.

Business Owners

Family businesses are the backbone of the American economy. From agriculture to services, technology and manufacturing, family businesses generate an estimated one-half of the U.S. Gross National Product and pay half of all wages earned in this country.
Find out how we can help you preserve your family business.

 

Probate and Trust & Estate Administration

Learn more about California probate.

California Probate and Estate & Trust Administration

Probate and estate administration are the processes through which estate assets are transferred after death. Assets to be transferred under terms of a will go through probate. Assets transferred outside of a will, such as by operation of law, or those planned for in a trust are handled through an Administration process. Administration also refers to the process whereby assets are transferred by rules of the state when there is no will. We can help make the process easier, more efficient, and provide peace of mind during a difficult time. Learn more about California Probate and Estate & Trust Administration.


California GLBT Community

Learn more about estate planning for the GLBT Community.

Estate Planning for California's Gay and Lesbian Community

Estate Planning is particularly important to the GLBT community. If a member of the GLBT community fails to plan properly, the result can be devastating in times of illness or accident. All of us can become incapacitated without warning at any age. If you have no powers of attorney, blood relatives will almost certainly take control of your life if you become incapacitated. For many that could mean a partner and/or friends could be shut out of your life when you need them most of all. Learn more about Domestic Partnerships and estate planning for the GLBT community.


Estate Tax Planning

Learn more about the estate tax.

California Estate Tax Planning

Historically speaking, the federal estate tax is an excise tax levied on the transfer of a person's assets after death. In actuality, it is neither a death tax nor an inheritance tax, but more accurately a transfer tax. There are three distinct aspects to federal estate taxes that comprise what is called the Unified Transfer Tax: Estate Taxes, Gift Taxes, and Generation- Skipping Transfer Taxes. Legal planning to avoid or minimize federal estate taxes is both a prudent and an important aspect of comprehensive estate planning. Learn more about estate tax planning.


Los Angeles Estate Planning Attorney Richard Grain assists clients with Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, Revocable Living Trusts, California Probate and Estate Administration, Estate Tax Planning, Estate Planning for the LGBT Community, IRA and Retirement Planning, Asset Protection, Family-Owned Businesses, and Special Needs Planning in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties; Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silverlake, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, San Marino, South Pasadena, Monrovia, Arcadia, La Canada, Flintridge, Altadena, Culver City, Westwood, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, North Hollywood, Encino, Tarzana, Woodland Hills, Hidden Hills, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills, Westlake, Oak Park, Malibu, Canoga Park, Venice, Reseda, Granada Hills, West Hills, Chatsworth, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Valley Village, Century City, Atwater Village, Highland Park, Mount Washington, Glassell Park, Eagle Rock, La Crescenta, Montrose and Universal City.

Please feel free to contact the firm if you or a family member is in need of legal assistance with California Probate or Estate Administration, California Estate Planning, California Wills and Trusts and Estates or California Tax Planning Strategies.

Richard Grain focuses on California Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, Estates, Probate Administration, Estate Tax Planning, and Estate Planning for the GLBT Community.

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