Los Angeles Estate Planning Attorney

Probate, Trust and Estate Planning Attorney Thomas Stindt; Contested Trusts

Los Angeles attorney Thomas Stindt has thirty-seven years of probate, trusts and estates experience in Los Angeles County, in estate planning, wills and trusts, gifts, contested trust proceedings, probate administration and probate estate dispute resolution, survivorship and inheritance disputes. Tom Stindt was formerly the senior lawyer in the wills, trusts and decedents' estates section of a major Los Angeles law firm. Attorney is a member of the California State Bar Association and Los Angeles County Bar association, Trust and Estate sections. Mr. Stindt practiced as the probate, trust and estate planning department chairperson in a large Los Angeles law firm, and has served as attorney lecturer on wills, trusts and probate law subjects for continuing legal education programs and bank trust departments in Los Angeles. Counsel is a member of probate and estate planning attorney study sections and trust and probate lawyer practice groups in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Stindt has IRS and FTB audit and appellate conference legal experience in the Los Angeles region; counselor is an "a-v" rated attorney. Mr. Stindt is frequently a consultant to other probate attorney, accountant, broker, financial planner and life insurance agent adviser personnel in estate planning and probate court cases in Los Angeles and in related probate matters involving wills, trusts, survivorship disputes involving California decedents and contested probate estate property issues.

California Estate Planning Attorney

Trusts and Estates Attorney Thomas Stindt is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles; he also graduated from the UCLA School of Law. Mr. Stindt completed post-graduate courses for attorneys at the USC Law Center in Los Angeles, and has consistently attended continuing education for lawyers in estate planning, probate, wills, trusts, estates and probate litigation subjects. Tom Stindt has legal experience with charitable remainder trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, probate disputes and family limited partnerships. Mr. Stindt is admitted as an attorney to practice before all state and federal courts in California, and the U.S. Tax Court. He is an attorney who has been published in the area of wills, trusts, estate planning, probate and trust court proceedings. Thomas Stindt is an active member lawyer of Los Angeles regional law practice sections in trusts and estates; is listed in the Register of Pre-Eminent Counsel, Probate and Estate Planning, Southern California area; and is repeatedly the recipient of the published `Super Lawyer' Designation for attorneys in estate planning, probate and trust law. Tom is a Veteran, U.S. Army, JAGC, and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal; he was a tax training lecturer and legal assistance representative of a Staff Judge Advocate's Office during military service. Mr. Stindt has been a PVP attorney for the probate department of the Superior Court, and has served as a volunteer settlement officer for the probate department, Los Angeles Superior Court. Based in the Los Angeles financial center, Mr. Stindt can provide attorney assistance with durable powers of attorney, living trusts, estate planning, wills, advance health directives, joint tenancy terminations and survivorship disputes over non-probate property.

Probate and Trust Attorney Thomas E. Stindt -- Trust Dispute Resolution

Attorney has been published in scholarly law journals and quoted in Los Angeles daily newspapers regarding subjects of probate, wills, trusts, will contests, inheritance disputes and estate planning; Lectured for CPA, attorney, CLU, bank trust department and CFP groups; MCLE guest program speaker on numerous occasions for major national law firms; outside trust counsel representing bank trust departments in court in fiduciary matters involving trustees, beneficiaries and executors. Los Angeles based trust lawyer, available for estate planning legal assignments, contested trust and estate matters in Los Angeles region, including court appearances in Orange, Los Angeles, and Ventura County probate departments. Experienced in contest issues of testamentary capacity, competence to make a will or trust, undue influence, interpretation of trusts. Extensive estate planning and probate litigation database, and complete dual redundancy of all systems. No charges for travel time to court hearings. Professional estate planning advice and services, wills and trusts, and representation in the courts' probate departments, are provided on an hourly fee basis. Attorney's advice and assistance can be provided as part of the client's estate and financial planning team; counsel works cooperatively with client's accountant, insurance agent or stock broker in implementing the comprehensive estate plan, or the simple will or trust. Member of a regional professional study group exchanging expertise with C.P.A., C.L.U., R.I.A. and bank trust officer professionals. Counsel maintains professional liability insurance in force applicable to all assignments. Read Mr. Stindt’s published article, "Will Power," in Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, online, at the Los Angeles County Bar Association website. Mr. Stindt has associated counsel support in contested probate matters, and colleague Dan Persoff has had twenty-five years of litigation experience.
[Attorney's practice is limited to estate planning, trusts, probate estates, and related court proceedings.] Mr. Stindt reqularly serves as attorney for the trustee in Los Angeles probate court proceedings. Thomas E. Stindt, Stindt & Persoff, Attorneys at Law, 333 South Grand Avenue, Suite 1580, Los Angeles, California 90071. Telephone: (213) 626-8541; fax: (213) 626-8537. Email: CallTomLA@aol.com