High net-worth individuals, families, beneficiaries and fiduciaries need experienced litigators to protect against challenges to transfers of wealth and assets from one generation to the next under trust or other probate instruments following death.

Our attorneys have successfully handled trust litigation and probate related trials in the probate courts throughout Southern California. KAS has an excellent record in litigating trust and probate matters involving beneficiary disputes, contested inheritance rights, disputed creditor claims, breaches of fiduciary duty, will and trust contests, fraudulent transfers, partition actions and many other areas.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Representing the trustees of the Marie Callender restaurant fortune in a centi-million-dollar challenge by an heir to the estate of Don Callender.
• Representing a national “AmLaw 100” law firm on claims asserted in California Superior Court involving the administration of a multi-billion dollar estate.
• Represented a physician through jury trial on malpractice claims against his former lawyers, and breach of fiduciary and fraud claims against his daughter.  Secured the largest legal malpractice verdict of the year in California in 2018.