BRANCH OFFICE LOCATIONS:
San Francisco:
220 Montgomery Street, Suite 1200
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 901-5800
Los Angeles
3701 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1130
Los Angeles, CA 90010
(800) 793-5633
San Jose:
4701 Patrick Henry Dr., Bldg. 16
Santa Clara, CA 95054
There are endless possibilities to planning your estate. Living Trusts, Life Insurance Trusts, Wills, Probate, Advanced Healthcare Direc
tives, AHCD, Power of Attorney, Durable Power of Attorney and Charitable Gifts. We can help you minimize estate taxes, avoid probate, and prevent property tax reassessment. Tax analysis is also provided for those with estates in excess of exemption limits. 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.
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