California Estate Planning Attorney

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Works directly with clients to implement proven legally-sound strategies that will help preserve their wealth and safeguard their assets. Such strategies often include the use of special trusts, business entities and other legal agreements.

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What's Up With All Of The Anti Investor Legislation?

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The inundation of so-called GURUs and their mass market spiels have created not only a bunch of novices in the field of real estate investing but also floods the market with many grossly misinformed people who are being taught things completely contrary to what the law actually says about these “creative” transactions.

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Injuries to Pets as Companions: Compensable?

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Case: McMahon v. Craig (2009) 176 Cal.App.4th 1502.

Code: Cal. Civil Code section 3355.



Defendant kills or injures a person’s pet or other animal. Plaintiff claims that the pet was, not just a pet, but, a life companion. Should defendant pay extra damages for this peculiar value? In California, the answer is “no.”


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