Berger, Nicholson, LLP
Berger, Nicholson, LLP. provides professional and caring guidance to help you manage, preserve, control and transfer your wealth to your loved ones. Services include estate planning, probate, and trust administration.
Firm Overview
We offer the following services: Estate and Trust Tax Planning for Individuals and Businesses, Trust Administration, and Probate.
We are dedicated to providing the most up-to-date planning alternatives and techniques to efficiently maintain and transfer wealth, and to minimize the impact of income, gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes consequences to our clients and their families. We represent US as well as Non-US citizens, living in the United States or abroad, making sure their plan is effective across borders.
As we understand that each individual's needs and objectives differ, we emphasize a personal approach and a careful analysis of each client's overall situation. We accordingly draft the documents that will meet those needs and carry out those objectives. Implementation of the estate plan, through follow-ups, funding, and reviews, is a crucial part of our process.
We use standard techniques such as simple and complex revocable living trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney, health care directives, and irrevocable trusts, as well as more sophisticated tools and techniques.
We assist you through the administration of trusts, including but not limited to, the setup of survivor trust, bypass trust and marital trust, the dress up of inventory, the allocation of assets, and the distribution to beneficiaries. We also handle issues that may require court action.
We assist our clients through the challenges of probate, which is the legal process by which title of property is transferred from the decedent's estate to his/her beneficiaries or heirs. Our guidance encompasses the entire process, from the opening of the probate, until the final distribution to the beneficiaries or heirs.
Our practice also extends to providing assistance with tools and techniques geared towards avoidance of full probate when applicable.
We are dedicated to providing the most up-to-date planning alternatives and techniques to efficiently maintain and transfer wealth, and to minimize the impact of income, gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes consequences to our clients and their families. We represent US as well as Non-US citizens, living in the United States or abroad, making sure their plan is effective across borders.
As we understand that each individual's needs and objectives differ, we emphasize a personal approach and a careful analysis of each client's overall situation. We accordingly draft the documents that will meet those needs and carry out those objectives. Implementation of the estate plan, through follow-ups, funding, and reviews, is a crucial part of our process.
We use standard techniques such as simple and complex revocable living trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney, health care directives, and irrevocable trusts, as well as more sophisticated tools and techniques.
We assist you through the administration of trusts, including but not limited to, the setup of survivor trust, bypass trust and marital trust, the dress up of inventory, the allocation of assets, and the distribution to beneficiaries. We also handle issues that may require court action.
We assist our clients through the challenges of probate, which is the legal process by which title of property is transferred from the decedent's estate to his/her beneficiaries or heirs. Our guidance encompasses the entire process, from the opening of the probate, until the final distribution to the beneficiaries or heirs.
Our practice also extends to providing assistance with tools and techniques geared towards avoidance of full probate when applicable.
Main Office
Main Office
5870 Stoneridge Mall Road, Suite 202
Pleasanton
CA
94588
Phone
- (925) 956-6769
Fees
Free Initial Consultation?
Yes
Hourly Rates
$275
Office Information
Office Hours
9am-5pm
Office Manager
Peggy Nicholson and Ingrid Berger
Emergency After Hours
Yes
Languages Spoken
English and French
Estate Planning
We emphasize a personal approach to assist our clients in taking care of their loved ones. We use techniques such as revocable trusts to prevent probate, wills, durable powers of attorney, health care directives, as well as advanced planning.
Berger, Nicholson, LLP. provides guidance to help you manage, preserve, control and transfer your wealth to your loved ones by tailoring its services to your particular needs and objectives.
With strong backgrounds in taxation, trust, and probate law, the two partners, Ingrid Berger and Peggy Nicholson, provide outstanding services to individuals and businesses in the areas of estate and tax planning, asset protection, trust administration, probate, and corporate law. In addition, having acquired their degrees both in the US and in France, the two French native partners have an extensive knowledge of both cultures and legal systems, and are hence exceptionally well qualified to represent clients who live or have interests outside the United States.
As we understand that each individual's needs and objectives differ, we emphasize a personal approach and a careful analysis of each client's overall situation. We accordingly draft the documents that will meet those needs and carry out those objectives. Implementation of the estate plan, through follow-ups, funding, and reviews, is a crucial part of our process.
For estate planning, we use standard techniques such as simple and complex revocable living trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney, health care directives, and irrevocable trusts, as well as more sophisticated tools and techniques.
With strong backgrounds in taxation, trust, and probate law, the two partners, Ingrid Berger and Peggy Nicholson, provide outstanding services to individuals and businesses in the areas of estate and tax planning, asset protection, trust administration, probate, and corporate law. In addition, having acquired their degrees both in the US and in France, the two French native partners have an extensive knowledge of both cultures and legal systems, and are hence exceptionally well qualified to represent clients who live or have interests outside the United States.
As we understand that each individual's needs and objectives differ, we emphasize a personal approach and a careful analysis of each client's overall situation. We accordingly draft the documents that will meet those needs and carry out those objectives. Implementation of the estate plan, through follow-ups, funding, and reviews, is a crucial part of our process.
For estate planning, we use standard techniques such as simple and complex revocable living trusts, wills, durable powers of attorney, health care directives, and irrevocable trusts, as well as more sophisticated tools and techniques.
Probate
We assist our clients through the challenges of probate - the legal process by which title of property is transferred from the decedent's estate to his/her beneficiaries or heirs - from the opening of probate to the final distribution.
Berger, Nicholson, LLP. provides guidance to help you manage, preserve, control and transfer your wealth to your loved ones by tailoring its services to your particular needs and objectives.
With strong backgrounds in taxation, trust, and probate law, the two partners, Ingrid Berger and Peggy Nicholson, provide outstanding services to individuals and businesses in the areas of estate and tax planning, asset protection, trust administration, probate, and corporate law. In addition, having acquired their degrees both in the US and in France, the two French native partners have an extensive knowledge of both cultures and legal systems, and are hence exceptionally well qualified to represent clients who live or have interests outside the United States.
In the probate area, we assist our clients through the challenging steps of probate, which is the legal process by which title of property is transferred from the decedent's estate to his/her beneficiaries or heirs. Our guidance encompasses the entire process, from the opening of the probate, until the final distribution to the beneficiaries or heirs.
Our practice also extends to providing assistance with tools and techniques geared towards avoidance of full probate when applicable.
With strong backgrounds in taxation, trust, and probate law, the two partners, Ingrid Berger and Peggy Nicholson, provide outstanding services to individuals and businesses in the areas of estate and tax planning, asset protection, trust administration, probate, and corporate law. In addition, having acquired their degrees both in the US and in France, the two French native partners have an extensive knowledge of both cultures and legal systems, and are hence exceptionally well qualified to represent clients who live or have interests outside the United States.
In the probate area, we assist our clients through the challenging steps of probate, which is the legal process by which title of property is transferred from the decedent's estate to his/her beneficiaries or heirs. Our guidance encompasses the entire process, from the opening of the probate, until the final distribution to the beneficiaries or heirs.
Our practice also extends to providing assistance with tools and techniques geared towards avoidance of full probate when applicable.
Peggy Nicholson
Peggy Burnet Nicholson is admitted to practice in the states of California and New York. She attended law school in France where she received a JD and a Masters degree. She also obtained a law degree from the University Paris I Pantheon-La Sorbonne in European and international law, and a Master of Business Administration at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. She went on to obtain her L.L.M. in U.S. Legal Studies and her L.L.M. in Taxation (with honors) from Golden Gate University School of Law.
Peggy Burnet Nicholson's experience includes estate planning, with a focus on the administration of trusts after death, and probate. Her ability to assess and design tools and techniques for the effective administration of plans, including alternatives to probate, as well as to guide clients through the difficult probate process when necessary, adds great strength to Berger, Nicholson, LLP.
Peggy Burnet Nicholson's experience includes estate planning, with a focus on the administration of trusts after death, and probate. Her ability to assess and design tools and techniques for the effective administration of plans, including alternatives to probate, as well as to guide clients through the difficult probate process when necessary, adds great strength to Berger, Nicholson, LLP.
License
- Bar Number: 233302
California , 2004 - Bar Number: 4238747
New York , 2004
Ingrid Berger
Ingrid Berger is admitted to practice in the states of California and New York. She completed her JD and a Masters degree in France. She went on to obtain her L.L.M. in U.S. Legal Studies and her L.L.M. in Taxation (with honors) from Golden Gate University School of Law.
Ingrid Berger has extensive experience in domestic, business and international estate and trust planning, as well as in asset protection planning. Her ability to listen and understand clients' needs allows the design and implementation of carefully tailored plans and solutions. Whether simple or complex, she handles every client and his or her particular situation with attention, thoroughness and professionalism.
Ingrid Berger has extensive experience in domestic, business and international estate and trust planning, as well as in asset protection planning. Her ability to listen and understand clients' needs allows the design and implementation of carefully tailored plans and solutions. Whether simple or complex, she handles every client and his or her particular situation with attention, thoroughness and professionalism.
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