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Shawna Murray Law

A law firm devoted to assisting individuals, families, and small business owners achieve peace of mind by creating and implementing customized Estate Plans, as well as offering legal representation for probate matters and trust administration.

Shawna Murray Law offers Estate Planning services to protect you and your loved ones, including:

Preparation of Wills and Trusts to control of who gets what, when and how they get it
Protect your surviving spouse and your children's inheritance
Designate guardians for children
Provide instructions for your medical care during a time of incapacity and at the end of life
Designate someone to take care of your daily finances if you ever become incapacitated
Avoid probate court costs and reduce legal fees
Provide for your loved ones with special needs without jeopardizing their ability to qualify for government programs/assistance
Plan for charitable giving
Protect your children's inheritance in the case of future divorces after your passing
Specify who can access your private health care information during times when you cannot speak for yourself
Ensure homes are transferred to children without an increase in property taxes
Maintain the privacy of your assets
Obtain assistance from Medi-Cal to pay for nursing home care and still pass your home to your children or other beneficiaries
Minimize capital gains taxes for your beneficiaries
Eliminate court custody battles for guardianship of your children
Avoid a conservatorship
Protect your loved one's inheritance from lawsuits and bankruptcy
Advising the successor trustee with trust administration

Probate services are also offered.

3 Terrible Ideas for Leaving an Inheritance
Here are just three terrible "shortcuts" to leaving your adult children an inheritance. Picking one of these “simple fixes” instead of developing an estate plan can cause bickering at best or at worst, or cause your children to start an all-out war against each other.
Property Taxes & Reassessment in California
Since it has been 40 years since Prop. 13 was passed, many Californian homeowners are not familiar with it. This blog entry will provide you with some background on Prop. 13 plus explain some ways you can avoid having the value of your home reassessed (and prevent the likely increase in property taxes) when you have a change of ownership on your home.
Low-Cost Online Will-Maker Is Less of a Value Than You Might Think
Robo-Will Makers and other website sites offering low-cost alternatives provide "one size fits all" solutions that can end up costing your heirs more than you would pay for making an estate plan with an attorney.
Who is going to take care of my kids?
In California, there are two types of guardians – a guardian of the person and a guardian of the estate. Guardians of the person are appointed to take care of a child whose parents can no longer do so. A guardian of the person (or as I like to refer to t...
A Will Does Not Avoid Probate
A Will alone does not avoid probate because the probate court is required to oversee the transfer of property if you do not have a properly funded Trust. Some of the pitfalls of probate are discussed, including the possibility of multiple probates, and the actual cost of probate is detailed in this blog post.

My Mission

My personal mission is to make estate planning as accessible, efficient and streamlined as possible so that individuals, families, and business owners are motivated to express their estate planning goals, and then families and business partners do not have to deal with the disastrous fallout from a lack of planning.

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Office Location

P.O. Box 62100
Irvine, CA 92602
(949) 416-3575