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Chad Bion Yates is President and Principal Attorney at Beck & Yates, A Professional Law Corporation, with offices loceted in Modesto and Ripon, California.  Chad's areas of practice include the following:. Estate Planning - preparation of revocable living trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney, advance health care directives, irrevocable trusts, special needs trusts, and life insurance trusts; probate and trust administration; and estate litigation.. Business - forming and counseling corporations, LLCs, and LPs, commerical transactions, buy-sell agreements, business succession planning, and agricultural, commercial and residential real estate transactions.. Litigation - civil, commercial, estate, landlord-tenant, and real property disputes.. Chad received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.  Chad is a graduate of Modesto Junior College and the University of California, Davis, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in history.  Chad also attended graduate school at The George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., studying history and public policy.. Chad is a member of the Stanislaus and San Joaquin County Bar Associations and the Stanislaus County Estate Planning Council.  Chad is a graduate of the Modesto Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Modesto (2010) and Commonwealth Modesto.  Chad was a founding director of the local nonprofit Alzheimer/Dementia Support Center, Inc., which provides education and support to those living with Alzheimer's disease/dementia and their caregivers.  Chad enjoys reading, traveling, hiking, golf, and spending time with his wife and young son.

Marlene Pappas Getchell has been certified by the State Bar of California as a specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law for over 15 years. She specializes in representing clients by writing wills and trusts, probating wills and administering trusts and in trust and estate litigation. Marlene Pappas Getchell also represents clients seriously injured in automobile accidents.