Experienced Elder Law, Probate, and Estate Planning Law Firm-Salinas, Monterey

Elder Law and Estate Planning,
Serving Monterey County

Hempel & Mudd Law Firm specializes in friendly, efficient and cost-effective legal services. We focus primarily on Elder Law, Estate Planning, Conservatorships, and Probate. We can help you plan for your future and resolve complicated legal issues faced by people at every stage of life and death. Because we are a small firm, we are able to give our clients personal attention and individual service.

Hempel & Mudd Law can assist you with the critically important legal decisions affecting your life, and the lives of your loved ones.

Areas of practice include:

Elder Law: Includes a wide range of legal issues that occur with aging.
Estate Planning, Trusts and Wills
Conservatorships: Court process wherein the court appoints one person to manage the affairs of another, usually due to dementia or other cognitive impairment.
Probate: Probate is a legal proceeding that is used to wind up a person's legal and financial affairs after death.
Powers of Attorney: document that allows someone else to help manage your assets if you become incapacitated.
Advanced Health Care Directives: Legal document that allows someone else to make medical decisions for you if you are unable to make decisions for yourself.
Trust Administration: The process of administering a trust and transferring assets after incapacity or death.
Special Needs Trusts: A trust that allows you to provide support for someone with special needs without losing that person's public benefits.
Guardianships: Court process wherein the court appoints an adult to assume the role of a parent to a child.
Medi-Cal Planning: Qualify for Medi-Cal to pay for long term care while preserving your home and assets.
Restraining Orders: Protect yourself or a loved one from abuse