Bridgford Gleason & Artinian founding partner Richard Bridgford was quoted in an article that ran in the Orange County Register on August 1, 2015 about pinhole leaks in copper pipes that have caused a four year legal battle between homeowners, a developer and three water districts in the county. On July 27th, Orange County Superior
In our era of e-mails and electronically- stored information (“ESI”), all companies must have a plan for storing and preserving ESI, particularly when faced with litigation. The risks of not having a well-established legal hold plan can be severe, including creating undue leverage for the opposition, in- creased settlement costs, greater risk of sanctions and
The Daily Journal quoted Michael Artinian in a product liability case.
Your parent(s) set up a living trust and named you as the “successor” trustee. That’s the easy part. The hard part comes after the parent/settlor’s death, when you are now faced with administering the trust, preparing an estate tax return, selling and reinvesting assets per the Uniform Prudent Investor Act, paying debts, prosecuting claims, obtaining
FACTS: Custom Home Builders, a general contractor, built a single-family residence in Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles pursuant to a written construction contract with Premier Homes, the developer. The residence was not built specifically for plaintiff Burch, but instead was built to be marketed to the general public. After the construction was completed and
If Mr. Smith has a judgment entered against him, and he decides you create an irrevocable trust, the greater will be your chances of success. In California, Probate Code §15304 (the “self-settled trust rule”) provides that an irrevocable trust in which the settlor is also a beneficiary is invalid against the settlor’s creditors, at least to