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DEMENTIA ESTATE PLANNING & ELDER LAW LOS ANGELES CONSERVATORSHIPS

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A specialist attorney in dementia & elder law is an expert in legal care who can help your family with conservatorships and the following:

1.   Discuss a dementia / alzheimer’s assessment by an expert physician or psychologist trained to provide a Capacity Declaration in Los Angeles.

2.   Once capacity is determined, then depending on the outcome, a specialist can advise you as whether a power of attorney is sufficient OR whether a full conservatorship proceeding is necessary.

3.   Your legal counsel should be able to immediately determine if the person who proposes to become a conservator is suitable by asking many questions.

4.   A glance at the assets of the proposed conservatee will enable your specialist counsel to advise you as to whether there is a likeliness that the Conservatee will run out of money during his or her time, by giving you an estimate of the current cost of care in home or in a facility.

5.   A specialist conservatorship attorney and counsel will be able to advise you of alternate ways of paying for dementia or alzheimer care for your loved ones, including having extensive Medi-Cal training by the counsel.

6.   Asset protection is a great part of planning for persons with dementia.   Special clauses can go into estate plans which can help protect the elderly from giving away their assets.   There are times when an incapacitated person needs to be protected while in a lawsuit, those cases can ben handled by our guardian ad litem attorney.

7.  Counsel should be able to converse about various options including whether a private professional fiduciary may be able to alleviate some of the stress of the tasks involved in caring for your loved ones.   This is especially important if you are caring for parents and do not have enough time to spend as you must support your family.

Mina Sirkin is a nationally recognized attorney in elder law and is Certified as a Specialist.  Call Mina Sirkin at 818.340.4479 for an appointment to determine the best course of action for your loved one.   Our offices are located in Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, Glendale and Pasadena. We also serve the surrounding areas including West Los Angeles, Burbank, Santa Monica, Alhambra and Altadena.  For over 24 years, our conservatorships attorneys have served many families and clients whose parents have dementia or Alzheimer’s disease in Los Angeles regarding dementia law and elder care planning for conservatorships.   Los Angeles Elder Law Conservatorship Attorney.

Probate Litigation Attorneys Los Angeles

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Litigation in Probate Court can be very stressful and expensive.    We have created unique ways of helping our clients recover keeping their budgets in mind when representing their interests.  Our Probate Litigation attorneys have over 22+ years of experience helping families such as yours in successfully completing trust or probate litigation matters in the Los Angeles Probate Court.  

There are several types of common litigation lawsuits in Probate:

1.   Will forgery or fraud.

2.   Cases involving undue influence where one person obtains a will or a trust by unduly influencing an elder.

3.   Recovery of Assets of a decedent.  

4.   Fraud relating to a will or trust.

5.   Cases where a person obtains a will or trust when there is lack of capacity, or diminished capacity by the signor.

6.   Cases where an executor or trustee has failed to timely distribute the assets of the decedent.

7.   Situations where an executor or trustee failed to account to the beneficiaries or heirs.

Our Certified Specialist Attorney regularly represents clients in trust litigation and probate litigation matters, in Departments 5, 9, 11. 29, 67, and 79 of the Los Angeles Superior Court (probate departments).   Our speciality is complex probate litigation matters.    If you have a unique situation which requires immediate attention, contact our office at 818.340.4479.    Our staff are ready to assist you.