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Estate Planning Attorneys in Long Beach, California

Counsel for wills, trusts, and probate: the paperwork that outlives you, done right. In Long Beach, that work runs through Los Angeles County's courts. This directory presents estate planning records from official State Bar of California data in neutral order.

Long Beach is a city of roughly 466,000, and its estate planning matters are heard at the Los Angeles County Superior Court: Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse. Civil and criminal matters for the harbor area are heard at the Deukmejian Courthouse on Magnolia Avenue, one of the busiest branch courthouses in Los Angeles County; the port economy shapes a steady docket of employment, injury, and maritime-adjacent disputes.

One date controls everything that follows: 120 days to contest a trust after the trustee's statutory notice, per Cal. Prob. Code § 16061.8. A trustee's notification under Prob. Code § 16061.7 starts a 120-day contest window. Creditor claims in probate are generally barred one year after death (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 366.2). Read the record below with that clock in mind.

This page is the Long Beach chapter of the registry's statewide record · Estate Planning Attorneys in California collects every county and city.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

120 days to contest a trust after the trustee's statutory notice.

Cal. Prob. Code § 16061.8

A trustee's notification under Prob. Code § 16061.7 starts a 120-day contest window. Creditor claims in probate are generally barred one year after death (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 366.2).

Court of record · Los Angeles County

Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

Courthouse at the county seat: Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

For Long Beach: Los Angeles County Superior Court: Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse.

Court website · Self-help center · Source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27. Venue depends on the case; legal information, not legal advice.

Estate Planning · Long Beach roster

155 active attorneys with an address of record in Long Beach list estate planning among their practice areas on the registry, out of 1,545 active attorneys whose address of record is in Long Beach.

By count, the practice areas most often listed by Long Beach attorneys are litigation (269), personal injury (262), business law (234), employment (183) and estate planning (155). A count of listings, not a measure of skill.

3 of the 1,545 have claimed and verified their record here; every other listing is the official record as published.

For 97 of the 1,545 active attorneys in Long Beach, the registry holds a firm website published in a language other than English; by count, Spanish (94), Chinese (21), Persian (18) and Armenian (18). That describes the website, not the attorney's own ability; an attorney's profile says when they have confirmed a language themselves.

Reading the roster in Long Beach. For planning, look for attorneys who practice estate law day in and day out; ask whether the fee is flat, what the package includes (trust, pour-over will, powers of attorney, health care directive, deed work to fund the trust), and how updates are handled after marriages, births, or moves. For probate or trust administration, ask about experience in the county's probate department, statutory fees under Prob. Code § 10810, and expected timelines.

Address of record in Long Beach