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A Revocable Trust, or "living trust" is a trust created during a person’s lifetime, hence the terms revocable and living.

Under Assembly Bill 1066, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) and signed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown, California agricultural workers will receive overtime pay if they work over eight hours a day. The new law will be phase-in over a four-year period beginning in 2019.

Under California Code of Civil Procedure section 474, if a Plaintiff is ignorant of the name of a potential defendant, a defendant in the complaint may be named as a “Doe” defendant. Often the caption of a complaint filed in the court will include DOES 1 – 10 as defendants

In June, Brock Turner, 20, was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on a university campus. The case was highly criticized.

A party may create an unfunded revocable or irrevocable trust and execute and file a disclaimer that declines, refuses, renounces, or disclaims any interest otherwise taken by a beneficiary.

Will I be put in jail if I don't have money to pay child support?

A party may eliminate the right of survivorship to property, as long as the party provides notice of the change is filed with the court and served on the other party before the change takes effect. There is a right of survivorship

On Monday by a 4-3 vote a divided California Supreme Court let stand a lower-court decision in Vergara v. California. The case was brought on behalf of nine public school students backed by the nonprofit group Students Matter, founded David Welch a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Plaintiffs argued the school’s tenure law was “grossly ineffective teachers.”, caused “significant educational harm”, and widening achievement gaps for minority students.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement in excess of $250 million with a San Diego County company accused of billing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health programs for unnecessary tests.