Estate Planning: Understanding individual and common goals enhances planning in designing wills & trusts. Patsy K. Schiff opened her estate planning law practice in Sacramento in 1983. She began training in mediation early in her practice and has since been practicing both as an attorney and mediator in the areas of estate planning and family law.
She has dedicated herself to learning effective dispute resolution, mediation, and communication skills to assist her clients as efficiently and compassionately as possible. Whether helping clients negotiate agreements in mediation for divorce or dissolution, or helping clients design an effective estate plan, she uses the tools of clarifying communication to help clients assess their goals and options and communicate with each other.
She has dedicated herself to learning effective dispute resolution, mediation, and communication skills to assist her clients as efficiently and compassionately as possible. Whether helping clients negotiate agreements in mediation for divorce or dissolution, or helping clients design an effective estate plan, she uses the tools of clarifying communication to help clients assess their goals and options and communicate with each other.
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Mediation is a way of resolving disputes and reaching agreements without court intervention. Mediation is not arbitration, it is facilitated negotiation. Patsy does not make the final decisions; she guides her clients through the decisions that they need to make. Mediation can be used to resolve many types of disputes resulting from marital dissolution, separation of non-married couples, child custody and co-parenting.
Feeling more in control of the future as a result of making their own decisions and setting goals is a typical response from people who mediate. Honoring the Agreements the parties have made is the norm for people who mediate because they have ownership of the decisions. Studies confirm this. In the end you must live with the result of your decisions; not the judge, not the attorney and not the mediator.
An investment in planning can make a big difference to yourself and to your loved ones. Through proper planning you can create the tools for efficient management of your affairs during your lifetime and for an orderly transition upon your death. Patsy's goal is to help you assess the particular needs of yourself and your family.
Written agreements can be used to define the financial aspects of a relationship so that the emotional aspect can flourish. Patsy brings to these discussions more than thirty-seven years of experience as a mediator and estate planner. Her goal is to help clients balance partnership and protection, to be sure they know the laws that will apply without an agreement, and to assist in creating the financial rules for the relationship.
Trusts should eliminate the need for a conservatorship if the person who set up the trust (the settlor) becomes incapacitated during his or her lifetime. They do not require a court probate process on the settlor's death (as long as the trust was funded during lifetime). Nevertheless, some legal advice and assistance will be necessary after the incapacity or death of the settlor.
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