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Imagine you are an elderly widow who decides to ask a trusted advisor to serve as a court-appointed conservator, to help with your medical and financial decisions. Then a stranger, a neighbor you met just once for a few minutes while taking a walk, steps in and asks the court to appoint him to manage your affairs.

California provides strong legal safeguards for victims of financial elder abuse, including the ability to recover the legal fees incurred in protecting them. But what happens when the claims of financial elder abuse are unfounded?

Online shopping by American consumers now totals well over a trillion dollars a year. That means millions of times every day, shoppers complete a checkout process that almost always requires agreeing to a lengthy “terms and conditions” document that few buyers glance at or even think about.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act provides a wonderful depreciation deduction (100% of the cost of a manufacturing facility that is “Qualified Production Property”) with some strict boundaries.

A Valensi Rose Client Alert

The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ (OBBBA) narrowly passed by the Senate and House just ahead of the July 4 holiday included a broad range of tax and spending measures aimed at supporting President Trump’s second-term agenda. A fierce, often partisan debate over the bill’s economic and political impacts erupted when it was first proposed, which has not abated.

But setting aside the controversy, you may be wondering how this legislation will affect California taxpayers and business owners.

Employers in a wide range of industries routinely ask employees to sign agreements requiring any work-related disputes to be resolved through arbitration rather than via litigation. They argue that arbitration is less costly, faster, and more private than going to court, thus benefiting workers and companies.