Alpha Law Group provides a range of legal services, including:
Estate Planning
An estate plan is more than simply a way to transfer assets to heirs after death. While this is part of the story, a well-designed estate plan offers a number of benefits. When you work with the Alpha Law Group, the estate plan we create for you and the people you love will protect your hard-won assets; use the tax laws to utmost advantage so you pay minimal, if any, tax; ensure your children’s inheritance; enable you to pass on your values, goals and work ethic. In short, it will protect you, your family and your legacy. [Continue Reading]
Trust Administration
There are many different types of trusts, but what almost all of them have in common is this: the administration process can be extremely complex and carries with it a wide range of duties and responsibilities. These include statutory notice requirements, the prompt payment of expenses, distributing assets to heirs in the manner dictated by the trust, and many more. In addition, failure to properly administer a trust can have serious financial consequences for the trustee. Needless to say, the decision to serve as trustee is an important one and should only be taken with a thorough understanding of the duties and risks involved. [Continue Reading]
Probate
A probate’s complexity depends on many factors, including the size and nature of the assets to be administered, the number of parties involved and how well the parties get along with one another. To make matters worse, probate occurs following the loss of a loved one, and the grief that accompanies this loss. If you are currently faced with the prospect of dealing with the California probate system, you do not have to go through it alone. We can guide you through the process with compassion and a minimum of stress. [Continue Reading]
Asset Protection
In today’s highly litigious society, people seem to file lawsuits over just about anything. And even if the suit seems ridiculous, you can never be sure what a jury might decide. No wonder asset protection planning has become such a rapidly growing area of the law. At the Alpha Law Group, we can design an effective plan to help you accomplish two main and very important goals: Protecting you and your spouse from predators looking to make a claim on your assets while you are alive, protecting a deceased spouse’s assets from a possible remarriage of the survivor and ensuring those assets will go only to the surviving spouse and children, and protecting your children’s inheritance against creditors and predators after you are gone. [Continue Reading]
Asset Protection for Medical Professionals
Proper planning for physicians, dentists and other medical professionals involves a number of regulatory and asset protection issues not commonly encountered in planning for individuals and businesses in general. It goes without saying that a medical practitioner wants to provide the best possible care for his or her patients. But he or she must also take steps to provide the best possible protection for the medical business entity itself, as well as the personal assets that have been earned through a lifetime of study and hard work. [Continue Reading]