By David Cardenas - September 12, 2026
Do You Know Who Can Now Speak for Your Beneficiaries?
If you have a living trust — or you've been putting off creating one — there's a legal update worth knowing about. Effective January 1, 2026, Assembly Bill 565 rewrote California Probate Code Section 15804 in its entirety, changing the rules around something called "virtual representation" in trust modifications. It's a technical-sounding chan