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Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California with satellite offices in Alhambra, Irvine, and Beijing, our offices provide support in all corporate matters, from the seed of a business to pushing forward the final product. Whether you’re an
entrepreneur, student, immigrant, or small business owner, we will not only protect what you create, but help it thrive in the world. We’re on the pulse of modern technology and media, and have monitored their evolution to inform our own legal approaches—all to give you exceptional advice that will last for years to come.
We’re equally passionate about immigration. Our firm primarily handles H-1B, L-1A, and O-1 employment visas, EB-1A, EB-1C, EB-2, and EB-3 green card petitions, and E-2 and EB-5 investment immigration cases. Our attorneys have been practicing for over a decade, bringing extensive experience and professionalism to every case and customizing our support to your individual needs and concerns.

Over the years, our legal practice has continued to rapidly expand into several additional complex and sophisticated areas in which we had advised many clients, including, but not limited to: international tax and wealth preservation planning; family business succession planning; tax and estate controversies; corporate and partnership business structuring; marital planning; and income tax planning for closely held businesses and real estate clients. Additionally, some of our attorneys serve as legal advisors to many prominent charitable organizations and have developed a niche practice in the complicated area of charitable planning and the structuring and operations of nonprofit organizations under the federal and state laws dealing with complex issues including, lobbying, advocacy, unrelated business income tax, joint ventures, avoiding excise taxes and foreign charities.

Estate planning is a legal process where you make an effort to preserve your assets now, and decide how they will be distributed at your death or during your life. When done properly it can help to save you and your estate thousands of dollars, and ensure your final wishes are carried out.
Proper estate planning will allow you to ensure you are able to control what happens to your assets now and after your gone. It is the best way to ensure your specific wishes are followed rather than hoping the courts make the right choices on your behalf. There are many benefits to estate planning including minimizing the taxes that are owed, maintaining privacy for your estate, helping your loved ones avoid probate court, and much more.
If you are the executor of an estate, you will have quite a few responsibilities that you need to take very seriously. One of the most important of these is making sure the taxes are paid on time, and in full, for everything you are responsible for. Estate taxes may be deferred in whole or in part and it will be your responsibility to make sure that you make all the right elections timely (this is especially true for an estate that is highly illiquid, i.e. holds assets other than cash or marketable securities). You need to analyze how taxes are going to be allocated among the beneficiaries and how funds are going to be raised to pay taxes.

Probate process includes several steps. This will provide you with an outline of what to expect while this event is taking place.

Petition – When an original Will of the decedent is discovered by the surviving spouse or children, the probate process will begin by filing a probate petition with the probate court. When this occurs, all heirs and beneficiaries must also be notified that a court hearing will take place. If at a later point later Will is discovered by someone else or if there are allegations of the fraudulent activity, the actual Will or a Will produced under undue influence, the objection to probate will be filed with the court and this will lead to a hearing.

At Trusts and Estate our attorneys focus their practice on estates and trusts administration, domestic and international estate planning sophisticated domestic and international taxation, and asset preservation counsel to CEOs of major corporations, ultra-high net worth individuals, multinational businesses, and charitable organizations.
If you are like most people, you like to donate money to one or more charities that are close to your heart. Many people have given to the same types of charities for years, so it makes sense that they would want to leave them one final gift from their estate when they pass away.
If this makes sense to you, we can help you tailor your estate plan to achieve the following: Benefit your favorite charity or charities, in a way that would still allow you to retain a form of control over gifted assets, and/or allow you to create an income stream to your favorite charity with a remainder of funds going to your family beneficiaries.
If you have highly appreciated assets and interested in income tax planning with those assets, reach out to us to discuss different charitable vehicles available to you. If you would like to make charitable planning a part of your estate plan, we can help you every step of the way. Get in touch with us to schedule a meeting where we can go over your desires for your charitable giving, and get it taken care of right away so you don’t have a thing to worry about.

Joy Elkins is Family, Divorce & Estate Lawyer and owner of Elkins & Muir, PLLC In Tucson Az. She has twenty-eight years of litigation experience, and countless hours in the court. She has assisted hundreds of clients with difficult family issues, helping them to construct new futures for themselves and their families. She has worked as a private mediator, and has served the court for several years to facilitate settlement conferences.
Elkins & Muir, PLLC is a trusted leader in Arizona family and juvenile law matters including divorce, child custody, child support, juvenile criminal matters, juvenile dependencies and many other kinds of cases. Law firm is also experienced in the areas of estate planning and probate.

We know the special problems that men face trying to get fair treatment in our courts. We know that men are not always given equal consideration for custody of their children. We know that men are often forced to pay excessive child and spousal support. We know that men have been ordered to pay more than their fair share of the debts, and awarded less than their fair share of the property.”

We know the special problems that men face trying to get fair treatment in our courts. We know that men are not always given equal consideration for custody of their children. We know that men are often forced to pay excessive child and spousal support. We know that men have been ordered to pay more than their fair share of the debts, and awarded less than their fair share of the property.

Ascent Law LLC helps you in divorce, bankruptcy, probate, business or criminal cases in Utah, call us for a free consultation today. We want to help you.

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