10630 Mather Blvd, Mather, 95655, CA , USAt Hackard Law, we understand the importance of earning our clients' trust. We do this by providing experienced legal counsel that is tailored to suit each client's unique needs. Our commitment to every client is evident in our accessibility, as well as our clear and constant communication from the initial consultation through the resolution of each case.
We provide both individuals and businesses with accomplished representation in a broad array of practice areas — from estate, trust and probate litigation, complex and comprehensive estate planning, and elder financial abuse cases to personal injury lawsuits, business and civil litigation, and real estate issues.
You may have an estate plan in place, but are you certain that it serves your current needs? We work with a number of clients who recognize that their life situation has changed dramatically since their estate plan was originally created and they need to address new challenges in real time. These may include deaths in the family, marriage, divorce, remarriage, business succession concerns or any number of issues.
Our firm has assisted individuals and families in Sacramento and throughout Northern California with estate planning needs since 1983. Founding attorney Michael A. Hackard has represented members of the Forbes 400, as well as professional athletes and a number of families with complex asset protection issues. Michael is AV Preeminent* peer review rated by Martindale-Hubbell, a testament to the fact that his peers rank him at the highest level of professional excellence.
Elder financial abuse is a scourge that truly affects everyone - the rich and the poor, famous people and ordinary people, brilliant Nobel Prize winners and retired people who've never had any formal education.
The reason I draw your attention to cases of celebrity elder financial abuse is because they prove a point -- no one is immune. As Mickey Rooney once famously said before a Congressional Committee, if it could happen to him, it could happen to anyone - and it
Santa Clara County is rich in people, talent and wealth. It is home to Apple, Intel and Google.
It is also a place of astonishing residential values.
Santa Clara's skyrocketing real estate prices are shattering long held expectations of retiring in place. They also affect how trust and estate disputesarise and are handled.
A large percentage of estate and trust disputes revolve around the family home.
There are many examples:
It's an all-too-common refrain: after a loved one dies, family squabbles erupt over money. Those disagreements can fracture a family and rip them apart.
Only "interested persons," as the law defines them, can challenge a will-and interested people require valid grounds. If you wish to challenge a will, retain an experienced lawyer to represent you. Not only will the assistance of an attorney bring your case to the best resolution possible, will contests often take a huge
