Welcome to The Estate Planning Law Center
The Estate Planning Law Center is the leading San Fernando Valley Estate Planning Attorney law firm for this specialized law field. Preparing your estate allows you to choose what your heirs receive. It eliminates the risk of those you care about most, your intended beneficiaries, from not getting what you want them to have. Estates can be eroded by additional legal and administration costs, unnecessary taxes, and hard feelings among your heirs that may lead to permanent alienation within the family from lawsuits. Moreover, not planning for the distribution of your estate can lead to unintended heirs.
A durable power of attorney allows you to appoint someone to manage your affairs while you are still alive but unable to take care of things yourself. It may be for business purposes only or for making medical decisions. The Estate Planning Law Center is a strong proponent of appointing someone to make medical decisions for you in the event you cannot. Your end of life medical wishes should be written; this is called an “advanced directive.” Like a durable power of attorney, the appointment of a medical surrogate is only valid when you are unable to make decisions for yourself. Using the expertise of Richard Seff, well-known as an expert in San Fernando Valley elder law, is your best option to protect your property and the future of your loved ones.
Here's what our clients say about us..
"Richard Seff is a highly original, unique individual who combines a variety of experiences and knowedge-bases to one unified activity. His attention to detail is the sign of a true professional and of a perfectionist. It has been our great fortune that we found him and it has been our privilege that he is helping us in that delicate and complex problem-area which is his business and also part of his life. We are looking forward to a continual association with him and planning to learn many things from him."February 2011 | George & Nobuko Csanak,Newbury Park
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After graduating from law school, I soon discovered what the typical estate planning experience was and it didn't feel right to me. I came from a background of service, having been a social worker before becoming a lawyer. It seemed to me that in a specialty as personal as estate planning, there is a need to develop a relationship with clients...a lifetime relationship. But the typical attorney bills by the hour and so clients want to do everything as quickly as possible. And the typical estate planning experience consists of clients coming in to sign some documents (most often not having a clear sense of what they are signing) and then take the documents, stick them in a drawer and not look at them again.
I opened the Estate Planning Law Center with the idea of bringing back the Personal Family Lawyer relationship – where planning is just the beginning of the relationship.
Who We Are
The Estate Planning Law Center was founded by San Fernando Valley Attorney Richard M. Seff. Through personal family experience, Mr. Seff learned that estate planning was treated by most law firms in a cookie-cutter way...
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Mr. Seff is available for an initial consultation at his office, or your office or home. He sees new clients on an appointment basis and is available on Saturday if needed. Usually, a first meeting takes two hours...
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As a parent and a spouse, Mr. Seff has strong feelings that effective estate planning was an unmet need of the people in the San Fernando Valley, and so he created the Estate Planning Law Center to make affordable...
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