Help Your Heirs or Estate Representative Digital Accounts All of us rely on digital devices and online account access, such as sharing family photos, social media, email, cell phone and computer, banking, bill pay, bitcoin, etc. Now imagine what will happen after you’re gone. Will your loved ones be...
Newly Increased California Homestead Exemption Law Protects the Equity in a Home What is a Homestead? California allows homeowners the ability to declare property their “homestead” if it is their primary residence. This declaration establishes that a certain amount of equity you have accrued in your home is considered off-limits...
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTIAL FORECLOSURES CHANGES TO PROCESS AND TIMING On September 28th, Governor Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 1079[1], which alters the process for how foreclosed homes are sold at trustee’s auction, requiring notice and preferred opportunities to tenants, local governments, and nonprofit/low income housing entities to buy foreclosed homes...
CALIFORNIA REQUIRES REPORTING OF PAY DATA BY 3/31/2021 California has been trying to strengthen California’s equal pay laws. The California legislature declared that despite significant progress made in California in recent years to strengthen California’s equal pay laws, the gender pay gap persists, resulting in billions of dollars in lost...
Everyone Should Have A Will and Estate Plan There are four personal estate documents that every business owner should have: a will, a trust, a power of attorney, and a medical power of attorney/healthcare directive. While there are more sophisticated documents that those with lots of assets or hordes of...
Have You Completed the 2020 Census? Deadline Is September 30! The census collects information on how many people live in the United States. It happens just once every 10 years and only takes 10 minutes to complete, but its data has a vital, long-lasting impact on all communities. Here’s what it does for...
Securities and Exchange Commission Expands Definition of Accredited Investor The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently updated and expanded the definition of an ‘accredited investor.’ The old definition used a bright-line test based on net worth and income to determine whether an individual qualified as an accredited investor...
Dawn Coulson Quoted Discussing Recent Lawsuit Filed by Large Retail Tenants The Gap and Old Navy Our managing partner, Dawn Coulson, is quoted in the news again, responding to inquiries about retail giants The Gap and Old Navy trying to use the pandemic as an excuse to not pay...
CALIFORNIA EVICTION (UNLAWFUL DETAINER) BAN IS BACK; LOCAL EVICTION MORATORIUMS REMAIN; AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (CDC) ISSUED ITS OWN EVICTION BAN CALIFORNIA AB 3088 As we have updated previously, at the inception of the COVID-19 closures, the California Courts issued an emergency order banning evictions in the entire state of...
Moratorium on Collecting Employee Payroll Taxes – To Collect or Not to Collect Now, That is the Question The President directed the Secretary of the Treasury to use his authority to postpone the period of collection on applicable wages beginning on January 1, 2021 and ending on April...