Los Angeles County changed how it decides who qualifies for a conservatorship on January 1, 2026. The shift comes from SB 43, a state law that rewrote the legal definition of “gravely disabled” for the firstREAD MORE >
A daughter in Encino cuts back her hours to care for her mother after a stroke. A husband in Reseda handles his wife’s bathing and meals every day. Both assume they’re doing this unpaid, the wayREAD MORE >
A grandmother in Woodland Hills sets up a trust that eventually splits among her three children, then their children after that, including grandchildren who aren’t born yet. Under the old rule, her trustee had to trackREAD MORE >
California made it easier to skip probate for a much larger share of estates. For deaths on or after April 1, 2025, the small estate affidavit limit is $208,850, and a 2024 law now lets manyREAD MORE >
Many families in Woodland Hills and across the San Fernando Valley built their wealth the same way: Mom and Dad bought a house decades ago, paid it off, and planned to pass it to the kids.READ MORE >
