Attorney Michael A. Long has represented and counseled clients with contested trust/probate disputes in California. Representative experience includes the following:
- Resolved bank fraud issues by trustee violating fiduciary duties involving self-dealing and conflicted transactions.
- Represented legal staff claimant in high stakes dispute concerning numerous cases of unaccounted or underreported proceeds and unpaid sums involving numerous cases of estates in probate/trust.
- Represented joint trustees / beneficiaries against acting trustee / beneficiary in trust dispute involving alleged fraud, undue influence, fiduciary violations, embezzlement, and misappropriation of funds.
- Advocated for claimant adverse to probate/trust lawyer concerning disputed decedent estate proceeds.
- Represented decedent settlor’s spouse in multiple a high value family trust disputes with splintered interests involving multiple litigations.
- Advocated for client in probate issues involving inventory and appraisal, investment assets, embezzlement, willful concealment, failure to report to beneficiaries, and stolen valuables by administrator violating fiduciary duties.
- Strategic advisor in intestate probate dispute primarily concerning investment funds contested by heirs.
- Co-counsel in litigated matters of trust res with disputes extending into Oregon and New Mexico.
- Led trial with cocounsel in a non-probate civil litigation involving a high stakes trust res targeted by opposing party with key evidence favorably admitted into evidence over opposing trial counsel’s objections and adverse motions, and successfully withstood appeal.
- Also represented client in matters involving allegations of falsified assignment of an investment asset to trustee successor concerning foreclosure of real property with trust-investor also involving disputes re validity of successorship and entitlement as beneficiaries after settlor’s passing.
- Further represented clients in related areas involving foreclosure/wrongful foreclosure disputes, title insurance disputes, financial institutions, real property, and collections.