Frequently Asked Questions about
Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, and Probate

• Acknowledgements

My thanks to Mark Welch, a distinguished member of the California bar and an Internet pioneer, whose estate planning handout for California residents was the model for the original (paper) version of this FAQ.

Most quotations are from The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (1997).

“Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down and write it as it occurs to you. The writing is easy -- it's the occurring that's hard."
--Stephen Leacock