Sometimes trust administrations are easy. DeAngelis Legal represented the beneficiary of a trust created by the beneficiary’s parents. Years of strained relations caused tension between family members, one of which was the trustee. After obtaining the documents clarifying past transactions, accounting and distribution amounts, the beneficiary signed off on the trust and received his share [...]
DeAngelis Legal created another non-judicial settlement agreement modifying the terms of an irrevocable trust. Decedent died before updating his estate plan, an all-too-common occurrence, leaving the beneficiaries of his trust to piece it together and work out the details themselves. DeAngelis Legal prepared the settlement agreement, modifying the decedent’s trust to conform with his intentions [...]
June marked the end of a four year complex trust administration odyssey. This administration could have been a television show, as it had every intrigue you can imagine - power struggles, illiquid assets, environmental claims, a defunct closely held business with unpaid claims, an injunction preventing the sale of real estate, property tax claims, third [...]
An increase in deaths in Arizona over the winter caused an increase in probate and trust administration. DeAngelis Legal continued to provide assistance to family members with these administrations from the preparation of simple Affidavit of Small Estates and Informal Probates to more complex situations requiring Formal Probates and difficult trust administrations. Each situation is [...]
DeAngelis Legal prepared the estate plan for a young couple with generational wealth. This project was made more complicated by one spouse’s interest in four irrevocable trusts and a myriad of out of state family businesses gifted from the spouse’s parents. While the couple’s planning was simple, DeAngelis Legal assisted the spouse understand her rights [...]
DeAngelis Legal represented a Scottsdale estate planning client with the decanting of his parent’s irrevocable trust. The client is a current beneficiary of the trust, but wanted to clarify the terms upon which his children as secondary beneficiaries would receive its assets, especially because one child had special needs. DeAngelis Legal prepared the new trust [...]
DeAngelis Legal assisted two new clients to open informal probate to transfer assets out of the deceased person’s name. In both situations, the deceased person failed to transfer the asset to their trust and the account custodian (one a financial institution and the other a title company) required “Letters of Personal Representative” before they would [...]
DeAngelis Legal assisted with the trust decanting of an irrevocable trust. We prepared the new trust instrument which holds a variety of closely held businesses, real estate entities and marketable securities. The old instrument was prepared by another law firm and its terms did not meet with the settlors’ intent. DeAngelis Legal worked with the [...]
DeAngelis Legal assisted new client with the judicial termination of a Charitable Remainder Trust. The trust was established many years earlier and was struggling to cover increased administrative costs and distributions to the income beneficiaries. DeAngelis Legal worked with the income beneficiaries, the charitable remainder beneficiaries, their accountant and the corporate trustee to value the [...]
The death toll resulting from COVID-19 continues to climb. June was no exception, with several new probates opened and trusts administered. A common theme among them was the failure to find the decedent’s original documents. The probate process is one of the few remaining areas where an original will is still required. This is because [...]
