Practice Area Overview

Estate Planning and Administration

Favaro, Lavezzo, Gill, Caretti & Heppell, P.C.

Insightful Representation • Individual Legal Solutions

The goal of an estate plan is to give you control over how all the property you’ve worked for throughout your lifetime is finally distributed. A good estate plan minimizes government intrusion, protects your privacy, and preserves the maximum wealth for your loved ones.

At Favaro, Lavezzo, Gill, Caretti & Heppell, we’ve offered estate planning and administration services for clients throughout the North Bay, Napa Valley, and Solano County since 1973. As a multi-disciplinary law firm with experience in trust accounting, tax, and real estate, we have the background to develop a range of options to meet your goals.

Contact a Fairfield or Vallejo estate planning lawyer at Favaro, Lavezzo, Gill, Caretti & Heppell for a consultation.

Our clientele ranges from people needing very simple estate plans to those who would truly benefit from a complex trust. In every case, we consider your individual circumstances and your personal goals—then help you meet them.

A Fairfield or Vallejo estate planning lawyer from Favaro, Lavezzo, Gill, Caretti & Heppell will explain the benefits of various estate planning instruments, and we will make certain you understand their limitations.

• simple or complex wills and will contests
• advanced directives (“living wills”)
• durable powers of attorney
• trust preparation, non-probate administration and trust disputes
• living trusts
• generation-skipping transfer trusts
• irrevocable life insurance trusts
• charitable remainder trusts
• qualified personal residence trusts
• probate and probate litigation
• retirement benefits planning
• asset protection and wealth planning
• business succession planning
• Prop 13. real estate assessment effects
• elder law
• Medi-Cal (Medicaid) planning
• guardianships and conservatorships
• adoption

We will also review and update your estate plan when circumstances change. Contact us for a consultation.

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With offices in Fairfield and Vallejo, the estate planning attorneys & probate lawyers of Favaro, Lavezzo, Gill, Caretti & Heppell, P.C., represent California clients throughout the North Bay and Napa Valley in communities such as Sonoma, Napa, Yountville, American Canyon, Benicia, Crockett, Hercules, Rodeo, Martinez, Concord, Richmond, Winters, Vacaville, Dixon, Rio Vista, and Suisun City.

Contra Costa County • Solano County • Napa County