TRUST, REDEFINED
The problems that unravel an estate are visible years in advance…to those trained to see them.
This firm is built to find those problems and prevent them — long before they reach your family.
Representation begins with a confidential consultation.
Services
Manley Law is devoted to a single discipline: the preservation and orderly transfer of wealth. The firm does not dilute that focus across unrelated areas of law. It does one thing, at the highest level.
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Revocable and irrevocable trusts, wills, and the advanced structures designed to move appreciation and tax exposure away from an estate and toward those intended to receive it.
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Counsel for trustees and executors through the administration of trusts and estates.
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Structuring the transfer of ownership and control — entity design, buy-sell arrangements, and the coordination of the business with the estate plan that surrounds it.
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Donor-advised funds, charitable lead and remainder trusts, and private foundation structures that align legacy with the causes meant to outlast it.
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Estate and succession counsel for the particular assets of a creative career: loan-out corporations, intellectual property, royalties, and residual income. The firm understands these assets because its founder built a career among them.
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Manley Law works alongside wealth managers and accountants so that legal and financial architectures move as one.
About
I founded this firm on a conviction formed early: that a well-made plan is an act of care.
I was born to older parents already in their forties and fifties and grew up in a household where planning was not theory but necessity. Retirement, medical decisions, the question of who would be cared for and how — these were discussed with a seriousness many families postpone. I learned young how foresight creates peace, and how its absence creates chaos.
I came to the law deliberately, and late by design. I put myself through evening law school while helping raise my two children and working full-time – and graduated first in my class. Alongside the law, I’ve built a parallel career as a published author and screenwriter with work optioned by major studios. This gives me an innate understanding of the assets and pressures of a creative life, and of the executives and professionals who build one.
Outside the office, I am a dedicated father and son, Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioner, private pilot student, and runner with seven completed marathons (chances are high that I will talk myself into an eighth).
Admissions
State Bar of California (Bar No. 358367)
All California state courts
Federal Court, Central District of California
Credentials
Securities Industry Essentials Exam
Series 65 Exam (Uniform Investment Adviser Law)
Selected, ACTEC Western Fellows Institute
Education
Holy Cross College at Notre Dame, Indiana
Glendale College of Law, Valedictorian
Memberships
Pasadena Bar Association
Beverly Hills Bar Association
Los Angeles County Bar Association
Provisors
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Every estate tells a story.
Manley Law begins each engagement by understanding yours.
*Consultations are confidential and by appointment only.