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WHAT SETS CALIFORNIA WILLS & TRUSTS APART?

California Wills & Trusts helps you create high-quality estate planning documents tailored to your clients’ individual needs. It is authored by California attorneys who are nationally recognized estate planning experts. The program's patented Intelligent Legal Technology® uses a question and answer session to guide you through the drafting process. Up-to-date research and analysis tailored to each question appears on screen when you need it. You can see your document change as you select among a question’s choices. The program generates legally sound, internally consistent documents and sends them to your word processor. This is the system that the California Wills & Trusts authors use to draft their estate planning documents.

PRODUCT BENEFITS OVERVIEW

• Better allocate your time. Spend less time on your documents and more time on your clients – why waste your time cutting and pasting and then editing for consistency?

• Spot issues. Lawgic® asks the right questions. You still make the decisions – with the help of our experts.

• Keep your documents up-to-date. Rely on Lawgic's regular updates to ensure that your documents incorporate the latest legal developments.

DOCUMENTS INCLUDED

Wills & Trusts

• Revocable Inter Vivos Trust, including provisions for the following trusts: marital, QTIP, credit shelter, marital disclaimer, children’s, GST exempt, grandchildren's, descendant’s, QDOT, and special needs trusts (medicaid or protective).
• Pour-Over Will
• Stand-alone Will
• Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust (ILIT)
• Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT)
• Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT)
• Annual Exclusion Trust for Children or Grandchildren
• Charitable Remainder Trust (IRS form)
• Amended and Restated Revocable Inter Vivos Trust
• Amendment to Revocable Inter Vivos Trust
• Codicil to Will
• Instructions for Executing Your Trust & Pour-Over Wills
• Instructions for Executing Your Will
  

DPAs and Related Documents

• Advance Health Care Directive (statutory or proprietary form)
• Durable Power of Attorney for Assets (statutory or proprietary form)
• Nomination of Conservator
• Notice of Revocation of DPA or Directive
  
  

Ancillary Documents

• Trust Transfer Deed
• Assignment
• Community Property Declaration
• Delegation of Authority as to Bank Accounts
• Nomination of Guardians for Minor Children
• Notification by Trustees
• Special Power of Attorney for Trust
• Trustee’s Certification of Trust
• Trustee’s Certification of Abstract of Trust
• Trustee Guidelines
• Trustee Resignation
• Notice of Crummey Withdrawal Rights

Letters

• Trust Funding Letter
• Sending Documents Letter
• Engagement Letter
• Nonengagement Letter
• Disengagement Letter
• " Thank You for Referral" Letter
• Certification of Trust Agreement by Attorney
• Letter to Lender
• Letter to Mutual Fund
• Custom Client Letter

And More …

• Template Assistant
• Synopsis of Trust or Will
• Worksheet of Questions
• Client Questionnaires
• Questionnaire for Death Certificate Info

PRODUCT FEATURES

• Easily create mirror documents for a spouse.
• Enter shared information only once.
• Automatically generate a client synopsis of the will or trust.
• Reduce research efforts with a searchable library of resources.
• Template Assistant feature easily creates and saves templates for use with multiple clients.
• Automatically exports to Microsoft® Word 2000 (or higher) or Corel® WordPerfect® 13 (or higher) using autonumbering and Table of Contents updating.

Lawgic also offers two California Family Law products,
California Marital Settlements and California Pre/Post Marital Agreements

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