Top probate Lawyers in Vallejo | 3 available

3 probate lawyers are available in Vallejo, california, including Charles Wood, Jack B. Burstein, and Judith L. Carlisle. These lawyers are rated between 3.0/5 to 3.4/5 and 55% provide free consultation.

Charles Wood

Judith L. Carl

Jack B. Burste

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Charles Wood

Firm: Favaro, Lavezzo, Gill, Caretti & Heppell A Professional Corporation

300 Tuolumne Street , Vallejo , California 94590

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Business & Commercial, Business Organizations, Condemnation & Eminent Domain, Constitutional , Construction , Contracts, Criminal Defense , Employment & Labor , Environmental , Estate Planning, Government Agencies, Housing & Construction Defects, Land Use & Zoning, Personal Injury, Probate , Real Estate , Taxation - State & Federal, Trusts, Litigation

Charles Wood has been in private practice in Solano County since 2000. Mr. Wood has served as a Deputy District Attorney, and Deputy County Counsel (Solano County). Throughout his nearly twenty-year career in Solano, he has practiced with and against the leading and most prestigious litigators in the County. In addition to experience as a government, then private practice attorney in Solano County, he practiced as a bilingual attorney in San Francisco, and was a successful real estate agent before attending law school. Mr. Wood grew up in Solano County and currently serves the community in several capacities, including the City of Fairfield Planning Commission.

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“tly and loses your documents. I ask him to put a Dropbox together he couldn’t do that . One last t”

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Judith L. Carlisle

Firm: Favaro, Lavezzo, Gill, Caretti and Heppell, A Professional Corporation

Courthouse Plaza 300 Tuolumne Street Californi , Vallejo , California 94590

Practice Areas: Americans with Disabilities Act,Civil ,Family ,Probate

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Jack B. Burstein

Firm: Jack B. Burstein

1730 Sonoma Boulevard PO Box 7026 , Vallejo , California 94590

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial,Divorce,Family ,General Practice,Probate ,Real Estate

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“Mr. Burstein has assisted my family twice. His advice was sound. He was incredibly professional. He was honest. I am so thankful to have had his assis...”

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California probate — minor child denied family allowance despite Estate of Jameson; looking for insight on whether ruling is legally supportable | Aug 22, 2026 | Sourced from Reddit
Location: California I’m involved in a contested probate matter involving a minor child of the decedent. I was appointed Guardian ad Litem for the minor. I am not an attorney, but the probate court allowed me to appear in pro per as GAL, file pleadings, and argue the minor’s family allowance request. I have since learned there may be a separate issue about whether a non-attorney GAL can properly represent a minor in litigation without counsel, so that is now something we are also trying to sort out. The immediate issue is a family allowance under California Probate Code § 6540. Before the father’s death, the household had approximately $13,790/month in resources from both parents’ employment income plus $1,000/month rental income. When he died, his income and the rental income stopped being available to the household, which was a loss of more than 52% of the household’s pre-death resources. The child remained in the same home with substantially the same housing and maintenance expenses. She later began receiving approximately $1,693/month in Social Security survivor benefits. I recommended a $2,750/month family allowance after considering the child’s circumstances, the surviving parent’s continuing income, Social Security, the estate’s solvency, pre- and post-death household resources, and recurring expenses. I expressly did not claim that there was a mathematical formula for arriving at $2,750. The estate administrator opposed the amount and argued, among other things, that the minor’s directly attributable expenses were less than her Social Security benefit. Their calculation assigned no meaningful amount to…

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