Estate planning with a personal understanding of the family.
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and related planning documents should reflect the client’s actual life—not a template.
Sacramento Estate, Trust & Probate Counsel
Protecting families, fiduciaries, and legacies with clear advice and careful litigation.
Goldkuhl, LLP helps clients with estate planning, probate and trust administration, fiduciary disputes, will and trust contests, elder financial abuse issues, and related litigation throughout California.
Personal. Friendly. Frank. Family-oriented.
The firm is designed to be approachable without sacrificing precision: direct advice, careful documents, and practical guidance when family and fiduciary issues become difficult.
- Estate planning, wills, trusts and asset protection
- Probate and trust administration
- Trust, estate, fiduciary and probate litigation
Firm Approach
Not your typical law firm. Not your typical attorney.
Clients come to the firm when they need legal work that is both technically careful and human. The goal is not volume. The goal is to understand the family, the documents, the assets, and the dispute.
Guidance when a loved one has died or can no longer act.
The firm assists with probate, trust administration, notices, inventories, fiduciary duties, distributions, and avoiding unnecessary court conflict where possible.
Representation when the documents, family history, and money collide.
When a will, trust, accounting, transfer, capacity issue, or fiduciary decision is contested, the work requires record discipline and a realistic plan.
Working With Each Client
Building a lasting relationship starts with straight communication.
Goldkuhl, LLP was built around a simple proposition: clients should be able to speak openly with their lawyer, understand the legal issues in plain English, and know who is responsible for the work.
“Being there to help people plan to protect their families and to guide them through the legal issues surrounding the loss of a loved one are the cornerstones of my law practice.”
The firm’s style is direct, candid, and personal. That matters in estate and probate work because these cases are rarely just about documents. They often involve grief, family history, control, trust, and money.
Practice Areas
This is focused estate, trust, probate, and fiduciary work.
The firm handles both planning and disputes, which gives litigation strategy a practical understanding of how instruments are drafted, administered, and attacked.
Estate Planning
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and planning for family assets.
Probate & Trust Administration
Guidance for trustees, executors, administrators, beneficiaries, and families navigating administration.
Estate & Probate Litigation
Will contests, trust contests, beneficiary disputes, capacity, undue influence, and contested administration.
Fiduciary Disputes
Accountings, surcharge, removal, fiduciary duties, distributions, and disputes over trustee or executor conduct.
Elder Financial Abuse
Disputes involving powers of attorney, undue influence, wrongful takings, fiduciary misuse, and disputed transfers.
Appellate & Published Decision Work
Representative appellate and published-decision work involving trust, probate, bankruptcy-discharge, and trust-distribution issues.
Expert Witness
Consulting and opinion work in probate, trust, fiduciary, estate-planning, elder-abuse, and fee matters.