An estate plan incorporates all the legal documents you need (Trust, Will, Durable Power of Attorney, Health Care Directive, etc.) should you become incapacitated or die. The size or amount of assets you have doesn’t matter. You are never too old or too young to start your planning.
Estate Planning
Elder Law
With people living longer, the likelihood of needing long-term care increases. You will want to be prepared to have Medi-Cal cover the cost, but you may not qualify for it if you haven’t planned properly. Elder Law includes estate planning, asset protection planning, and advanced health care directives.
Medi-Cal Planning
Medi-Cal is the government program that pays for long-term care in California for qualified persons. It is critical to plan for long-term care, especially for middle-class seniors who may not qualify for Medi-Cal as the cost of long-term care continues to go up.
Estate Administration
When a loved one dies, you will need to go through the estate administration process. We assist trustees and executors in avoiding common mistakes and missed deadlines with straightforward guidance and support for trust administration or probates.
Probate
If your loved one dies without a trust in place you may have to go through probate in the California courts to settle their affairs and distribute assets to the beneficiaries or heirs. This is a long, sometimes controversial, expensive legal process.
07
Sep
What is Probate and why you want to avoid it
Probate is a legal process that is processed by the Superior Court of the county of a deceased property owner. In California, if you die with assets greater in value than $166,250, and the property is not held in a trust or in joint tenancy, or has a pay on death feature, then you will…
03
Sep
Can I redo my estate plan before my divorce is final?
Can I redo my estate plan before my divorce is final? The answer is yes. Once you are legally separated, you need to have an estate plan, or at least a will, detailing the beneficiaries of your estate. Most couples’ largest asset is the family home, but even though the marital property settlement has not…
27
Aug
Protect your Family’s Estate from expensive nursing home costs with some simple pre-planning strategies
Many of us will need long term skilled nursing home stay at some point in our lives. The cost of this care can range from $6,500 to $12,000 per month depending on the facility. If you need skilled nursing home care in California and you qualify for Medi-Cal, the state can still come after your…
Breunig Law provides compassionate, skilled, and experienced services you can trust. We will deliver counseling, drafting, and execution of a well-thought-out estate plan that will protect your assets, support your family’s unique needs, and save you and your family money and stress, or confidently support your estate administration or probate needs.
After a successful career as a corporate attorney in the technology field, I became an advocate for advance estate planning when my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. When I saw the estate planning and protection tools my parents’ estate planning attorney drafted for them, I was hooked.
As my wife Tina will attest, I get passionate about a lot of things in addition to my work. It doesn’t matter whether it is drafting a trust, baking sourdough bread, making jams and pickles, puttering in my vegetable garden, cooking a good meal, woodworking, bicycling in the Placer County countryside, or enjoying some play time with our sweet dog Maisie.
What fuels me and my competent staff is to simplify the process, reduce the stress, and ensure that proper estate planning is done in advance whenever possible. The rest of our time is spent helping others to administer an estate, go through a lengthy probate process, or qualify someone for Medi-Cal funded long term health care.
