About Us

* PROTECTING FAMILIES SINCE 1995 *

Services Provided

Estate Planning (Pre-Death) Living Trusts Wills Guardianships Special Needs Trusts Estate Tax Minimization Probate Avoidance Powers of Attorney Healthcare Directives Community Property Planning

Probate (Post-Death) Probate Court Procedures Spousal Property Petitions Small Estate Settlement Procedures Mediation of Family Disputes Estate Tax Post-Death Tax Strategies

Family Business Planning Asset Protection Succession Planning LLC FLP Entity Formation (Corporations, etc.) for  Maximum Estate Tax       Advantages

Our estate planning services include the preparation of Living Trusts, wills, powers of attorney, irrevocable life insurance trusts, and charitable gifts. Tax analysis is also provided for those with estates in excess of exemption limits.

Our mission is to make our quality services accessible and affordable to benefit families from all walks of life.

From the first consultation to the drafting of your important Estate Plan documents, our clients are all serviced personally by attorneys.  Your Estate Plan is important to us, and our trusts services include the necessary planning to minimize estate taxes, with special attention, when needed, to address the needs of non-Citizens and families of mixed citizenship. After-service includes trust administration services, estate tax returns, probate filings and probate administration.

We also form and advise corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships. We advise businesses in choosing entity formations and in methods for achieving favorable tax advantages with, when possible, maximum estate and asset protection benefits. We also provide limited services related to general business transactions.

Since 1995, Ernest Kim has been actively working to inform the community about planning techniques to reduce estate taxes and probate fees. He has published numerous articles on Estate Planning for print in newspapers and periodicals. He has given seminars which have been co-sponsored by Prudential, Merrill Lynch, AXA Advisors, the San Francisco Korean Chamber of Commerce, the Santa Clara Korean Chamber of Commerce, etc..

He has also co-authored the chapter on the "Nature and Classification of Trusts" for West Group Legal Publishers, which was published in October 1999 as reference material for use by other estate planning atorneys.

Ernest Kim is a graduate of the Cornell University Law School, majoring in Business Law and Regulation. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley and received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics.