Family Law

• Guardianship
  Trusts for Minors - Can be tailored to the specific needs of a minor child, and can continue beyond the mandatory termination ages for either a guardianship (18) or custodianship (25).

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Welcome to the LAW OFFICES OF RICK ADDICKS. I draft wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and advance health care directives, handle real estate matters and transactions, negotiate contracts, assist with probate and trust administrations, set up businesses, and otherwise serve my clients' legal needs.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Community / Separate Property - When one has a living spouse, for purposes of estate planning it is important to determine which property is owned as community property and which is owned as separate property. Basically, community property is all property acquired during marriage which was not acquired by gift, devise, or as a result of a personal injury judgment, and/or which was not acquired as the direct result of an increase in value of property owned separately before marriage. Each spouse owns a 1/2 interest in community property. Separate property, by contrast, is property owned by one spouse only. One may do whatever one wishes with his or her separate property. There are, however, some limitations on what one may do with community property assets.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  This brief glossary is designed to help you understand some basic estate planning terms. Not all of the concepts or devices described will be relevant to every estate plan. Nor is this glossary exhaustive. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me at (415) 883-0365.
• Wills
• Trusts
  Bypass Trust - Historically were used to maximize the use of the Unified Credit in combination with the marital deduction by removing property from the surviving spouse's estate. By making the deceased spouse's exemption "portable" to the surviving spouse in 2013, Congress essentially eliminated this function. Such trusts can be used, however, to make irrevocable the deceased spouse's intentions upon his or her death. Such Trusts can be created as Living Trusts or Testamentary Trusts.
• Power of Attorney
  Specialties: simple and complex Estate Plans (trusts, wills, powers of attorney), trust and probate administration, business counsel, and real estate assistance for individuals, businesses, and families of any size or economic situation.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Tax Law