Estate planning is, without a doubt, the most avoided and postponed legal task that we all face. Everyone needs an estate plan so that the fruits of your and your spouse’s life’s labor can go to those you love. Yet, we all put it off, year after year. Why? The process of creating a simple estate plan – a will or a simple trust - is largely painless and not particularly expensive nor time consuming. We avoid it because it forces us to deal with our own mortality - the fact that our time is limited.

Why you need a California Trust Attorney

The problem with avoiding estate planning is that you may never get around to it; or when you do, you may be unable to clearly think through the issues that would have been easier to deal with when you were younger and healthier. Most of us, when we die, will leave behind a spouse and children and grand children. While we are alive, we can make decisions according to our wishes that control the disbursement of our assets after our death. If we fail to make those decisions prior to our death, others will be forced to make those decisions for us. These post-death decisions can be difficult and controversial and often can lead to a great deal of family strife and disaffection.

Your unwillingness to properly deal with these issues well before your death may well result in a great deal of unnecessary family conflict and unhappiness which may make your spouse’s life much more difficult than it would have been if the two of you had created an estate plan in advance. It also may create taxation issues and expenses that were avoidable if you had planned ahead.

To properly make these decisions and create a workable and legal estate plan it is important to have an California trust attorney sensitive and knowledgeable in these matters to assist you. So, if you are finally ready and have summoned the courage to deal with these issues, I’m your guy. I can handle simple wills, simple trusts, and far more complicated estate planning issues involving special needs trusts, family owned businesses, taxation issues, etc.

I feel honored when clients choose me to help them with this most important task. I feel it is a special role I play in advising them. I keep my fees modest and I can do simple wills and trusts very reasonably. It is an important area of my practice, but not one in which I hope to get rich. Let me know if I can help you in creating your estate plan. I will send you a questionnaire to fill out and return to me. After my review, I will be able to provide you with a recommendation and estimate for creating an estate plan suitable for you, whether it be a simple will, trust or something more complex.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."

California Trust Attorney – Wills & Estate Planning

Gil Maguire, Attorney, of the CA law firm MaguireLaw represents clients in the areas of general law,

estate planning, wills and trusts, divorce and family law, collaborative law, mediation, small business law,

and employment law including wrongful termination and retaliation, wage and hour law, unlawful

discrimination, sexual harassment, and employment contracts and separation agreements.

MaguireLaw provides legal services for clients in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Port Hueneme, Point

Mugu, Malibu, Santa Paula, Filmore, Newhall, Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, Newbury Park, Westlake

Village, Simi Valley, Agoura, Agoura Hills, Oak Park, Hidden Hills, Calabasas, West Hills,

Woodland Hills, Chatsworth, Tarzana, Encino, Northridge, Grenada Hills, Canoga Park, in Ventura

County and Los Angeles County, California.