{"id":132,"date":"2012-03-20T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2012-08-14T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T22:25:49","slug":"our-living-trusts-avoid-probate-in-ways-other-estate-plans-do-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/our-living-trusts-avoid-probate-in-ways-other-estate-plans-do-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Living Trusts Avoid Probate in Ways Other Estate Plans Do Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons my trust and estates practice has flourished when others have floundered is that we don\u2019t cut corners.\u00a0 I take the time to help our clients make the right legal decisions.\u00a0 Then I make sure that their living trusts reflect those good choices by drafting the documents myself, by putting my own hands to the keyboard.\u00a0 Finally, when something happens, I help my clients\u2019 families transition well.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what the media may tell us, no matter what our friends may think, there is no way to do these things right if a lawyer is focused on the number of clients they see each month instead of the quality of their work.<\/p>\n<p>In our office we are much more interested in our clients than in anything else.\u00a0 They trust us.\u00a0 We take pride in doing things correctly for their sake.\u00a0 Indeed, everything we do &#8212; from the number of cases we take to the fees we charge &#8212; reflects this value.\u00a0 Although we work efficiently and use the latest technology, we still\u00a0take the time necessary\u00a0to protect our clients\u2019 best interests.\u00a0 Doing things any other way would force us to pay less attention to the good lawyering that brings our clients meaningful peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes down to it, not every estate plan is the same.\u00a0 Some are poorly drafted, full of contradictions.\u00a0 Others are done online or by document preparers and, thus, with little to no thought about the circumstances of those who will depend on them.\u00a0 A living trust that is defective in these ways usually results in a costly trip to probate court to deal with the consequences.\u00a0 It can also lead to conflict in a family, even litigation.<\/p>\n<p>Your living trust is how you protect yourself if you get too sick to manage your affairs.\u00a0 It\u2019s how you protect your spouse from shouldering an unnecessary burden if something happens to you.\u00a0 It\u2019s how you say \u201cI love you\u201d to the most important people in your life for the last time.<\/p>\n<p>That means it\u2019s worth doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Please call us at <strong>916.273.9040<\/strong> or <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"Please click here.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/contact_us.php\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">use our online contact form<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">if you would like to learn more about having the right living trust.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons my trust and estates practice has flourished when others have floundered is that we don\u2019t cut corners.\u00a0 I take the time to help our clients make the right legal decisions.\u00a0 Then I make sure that their living trusts reflect those good choices by drafting the documents myself, by putting my own&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/our-living-trusts-avoid-probate-in-ways-other-estate-plans-do-not\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19,20,21,23,17,18,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wyattlegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}