There are several possible objectives to an estate planning engagement:

• Avoid probate!
• Minimize estate taxes and defer payment of them, if the size of the estate justifies such planning.
• Provide the easiest possible transition upon the death of one spouse survived by the other, with maximum control in the survivor.
• Provide trusts for younger beneficiaries or elderly beneficiaries.
• Succession planning for a business or real estate portfolio.

Mr. Tigerman, with the assistance of associates and colleagues under his direction, helps a family with these types of issues and objectives. He represents business owners and real estate entrepreneurs and individuals in all circumstances to select and implement the correct vehicle and strategy.
Mr. Tigerman is the past president of the Estate Counselors Forum (Century City) and a California State Bar Association Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law. He is a “family lawyer” (but not in the sense of a divorce or marital dissolution attorney) in that he represents the family, through the generations, with their business issues and transactions, estate planning matters, and post-death trust administration.