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It really doesn’t matter if you are Republican, Democrat or Independent, whether you live or work in Hollywood, Los Angeles, or live in Malibu, or live and work outside the entertainment industry anywhere from Orange County to San Diego, from Carlsbad, or Pacific Beach, La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe and San Marcos to Newport Beach, Laguna Beach or Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, Anaheim, Irvine or Yorba Linda. Even if you live in Montecito or Santa Barbara, Temecula, Palm Desert, La Quinta or Palm Springs, you have got to love Sarah Palin for the comedy she has brought back to television and to this election.

Before I even start this article, there will be some out there who will say Sarah Palin is being picked on. Whether or not you believe that to be true or false, this candidate is giving us some of the best comedy a politician has ever given us, and at a time when we have never needed it more. Saturday Night Live could never have hoped for a better candidate to skewer.

Who knew that the straight man or in this case straight woman would turn out to be Katie Couric?

First there was Sarah Palin’s attempt to explain her position that by the fact that Alaska is geographically close to Russia, that she has foreign policy experience. Couric asked why Palin’s experience in Alaska enhances her foreign policy credentials.

Palin: Well, it certainly does because our next door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia -

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations for example, with the Russians?

Palin: We have trade missions back and forth. We do – it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia – as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our State.

Has anyone yet figured out what any of her answer to Katie Couric’s question means? One has to believe she was testing her skill as a deadpan comedian because she followed up this answer with an even better answer.

Couric: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries; allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy instead of helping those big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

Palin: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the – it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes, and reigning in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade, as opportunity not as competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. The bailout is a part of that.

Political science majors in college and election campaign advisors will be studying both of these answer for years. But just grasp if you will how, in her second answer,she is able to connect the dots. The bailout, Palin says, makes her and other Americans ill. So the bailout needs to bail out health care, presumably, so we can get over our illness with the bailout. This is masterful.

But the bailout is also about job creation (whose?), reducing taxes (really?), reigning in spending (all $700 billion worth?), and trade (this is part of her comedy routine apparently). And then in the spirit of Halloween which is just around the corner, she says trade should be seen as an opportunity, not just as a scary thing. Brilliant. But she forgot to mention Christmas and being a maverick cleaning up Washington. Rats.

As an entertainment attorney who also handles election law, campaign finance law and political law, Sarah Palin has it all. She is rejuvenating comedy to it’s highest art form and making political junkies of us all.

This isn’t just comedy or entertainment. This is politics at it’s most lucid. Or is that ludicrous?

If you have an entertainment law, copyright or trademark issue in San Diego, Newport Beach, Irvine, Orange County, La Jolla, in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Palm Springs or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your Beverly Hills Entertainment Lawyer and your Malibu Entertainment Attorney. Be sure to hire a California law firm with entertainment law experience who can serve areas such as Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Anaheim, Irvine, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Newport Beach, Carlsbad, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Fullerton, Del Mar, San Diego, Orange County, San Luis Obispo, Buena Park, La Jolla, Oxnard, Ventura, La Quinta, and Santa Barbara so you are properly represented.

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When setting up a living trust in California, it doesn’t matter where you live, La Jolla, Del Mar, Rancho viagrata Fe, Encinitas, Carlsbad or San Marcos, for instance in San Diego, CA, or Newport Beach, Newport Coast, Crystal Cove, Laguna Beach, Anaheim Hills, Yorba Linda or Corona del Mar as an example in Orange County, California, or even in Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells or La Quinta in the Coachella Valley, they have usually been set up by an estate planning attorney to reduce probate expenses and estate taxes for the clients. Today, their usefulness in that regard depends on the size of the estate.

 

When a trust is set up, one person’s legal property is held in trust by the trustee for the beneficiary. With most living trusts, you are the trustee of your own trust property and keep full control over all the property in the trust. That is why people should not be scared of setting up a trust for themselves. The scary thing is when people try to set them up without the assistance of an attorney. That is when mistakes can be made.

 

While setting up a trust will cause some expense in attorney fees, they can eliminate the need for probate, probate fees, and your surviving family members can transfer your property quickly without waiting 6 to 12 months for probate to be complete.

 

If you don’t expect to owe federal estate tax at your death, a simple basic living trust is probably the only type of trust you need to avoid probate and probate fees.

 

A declaration of trust is prepared and you can name yourself as trustee. The declaration of trust states who you want to get your property at your death. Property is transferred to yourself, as trustee of your estate. When you die, the successor trustee transfers the property to the people you wanted to get it.

 

If you want to leave your house through your trust, you will need to sign a new deed. This is not as complicated though as it sounds.

 

You should still have a will even if you have a trust. The will serves to cover any property which you choose not to or forget to transfer to the trust. Your will can also have a catch all that states who gets the residue of your property that you have not specifically given to others.

 

If you have a trust but no will, any property that falls outside the trust will still go to your closest relatives, according to state law.

 

Finally, if you have a large estate and need to save on estate tax, more complicated living trusts can be created to reduce your tax at the time of death.

 

For those who do not want the hassle of setting up a trust, a will can be made very easily and you can still control who gets your property.

 

If you forget to make a will before you die, the state will determine who gets your property, but it will usually be your spouse and children, or if you have none, your closest relatives. 

 

If you have a trust, will, or estate planning issue in San Diego, Newport Beach, Irvine, Orange County, La Jolla, in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Palm Springs or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your Palm Springs Estate Planning Lawyer and your Newport Beach Trust Attorney. Be sure to hire a California law firm with estate planning and trust law experience who can serve areas such as Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Anaheim, Irvine, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Newport Beach, Beverly Hills, Carlsbad, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Fullerton, Del Mar, San Diego, Orange County, San Luis Obispo, Buena Park, La Jolla, Oxnard, Ventura, La Quinta, and Santa Barbara so you are properly represented and get the compensation you deserve.

 

If you have a trust, will, or estate planning issue of any kind, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  and learn how we can assist you.



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