California living trust laws govern how residents can create and manage trusts to hold their assets, potentially bypassing probate-a court-supervised process for transferring property after death.

A spouse doesn't automatically inherit everything if the other passes away without a will, even in a community property state such as California. What California's community property law means for ...

By 2022, the community land trust program preserved 43 residential units, enabling 110 people to live in stabilized affordable housing. Average development costs were more than $300,000 less than ...

Shared living arrangements offer an alternative to institutional living, providing individuals with disabilities a sense of community ...

The double step-up in basis is not affected if you own property in a kind of revocable trust known as a living trust. Living trusts are designed to avoid the court process known as probate, and ...

For the Reed Street house, South Bay Community Land Trust raised $500,000 from private donors to cover the down payment on the $1.6 million property, the trust’s first purchase.