We want to talk to you about estate planning after a divorce in Arizona, why you need to re-think your estate plan once the divorce is finalized and some of the pitfalls if you don’t take action to either create an estate...

Arizona law limits no-contest (in terrorem) provisions in wills and trusts. They can only be applied if a person contests without probable cause. In the case of In re Estate of Shaheen Trust, 341 P.3d 1169 (1995), the Court...

Under Arizona law, a spendthrift provision in an estate planning trust prevents a credit from attaching a beneficiary’s interest. The provision also prevents the beneficiary from transferring his interest voluntarily. The...

The Arizona Court of Appeals in the unpublished decision of Koma v. Walter considered whether or not the trial court was in error when entering a judgment rejecting challenges presented by a wife to her...