Everything you Need to Know About the CA Statewide Rent Control Bill

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Everything You Need to Know About the CA Statewide Rent Control Bill On October 8th, 2019, CA Governor Gavin Newsom signed bill AB 1482, also known as the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, effective January 1, 2020, in efforts to ease the housing crisis. The sunset...

Bay Area Property Ownership

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Bay Area Property Ownership: Joint Tenancy, Tenants in Common or Community Property? In California, when you own real property with another person, you can hold it in one of 3 different ways: Joint Tenancy; Tenants in Common, and; Community Property Joint Tenancy In a...

California’s Proposed Estate Tax Changes

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CALIFORNIA’S PROPOSED ESTATE TAX FAILS IN SENATE WILL NOT, FOR NOW, MAKE IT TO THE 2020 BALLOT California State Senator Scott Weiner recently introduced Senate Bill 378, which would impose gift, estate, and generation-skipping taxes on all transfers after December 31...

A Will or a Trust – That is the Question

Article, Estate Planning, wealth preservation

A WILL OR A TRUST – THAT IS THE QUESTION When a couple with young children approach estate planning for the rst time, the rst hurdle in the planning process is to determine what type of estate plan to use: one that is based on a Will or one that is based on a...

VLOG – Taking my Property Taxes With Me – McDowall Cotter 5/28/2020 12pm

On Thursday, May 28th from 12:00pm – 12:30pm, McDowall Cotter’s attorneys Stefani Coggins and Robert Vale will be hosting Part Two of their vlog on Taking my Property Taxes With Me! To join this vlog, please follow this...