Estate Planning

What Happened On July 3, 2025, the California Supreme Court ordered attorney Drexel Andrew Bradshaw disbarred — the most severe punishment the State Bar can hand out — for defrauding an elderly, incapacitated client and lying to a probate court about it, repeatedly, under oath. The case, In re Bradshaw, is a cautionary tale about what happens when an attorney is trusted to manage someone else's money and life savings, and instead quietly funnels it toward himself. The Backsto

Don Kirchner died in 2018, leaving an estate valued at $3-$4 million. His living trust lacked an important document, Exhibit A. A...

Joan Lee Maynord created a family trust in 1986, and after her death, her daughter Joan Mauri Barefoot, who was a trustee and...