LITIGATION & APPEALS

No will, trust, power of attorney, LLC, or other tool in estate planning is immune to potential challenges from family members or other individuals, creditors, or even a charitable entity. And let’s not forget the IRS. As you may have already experienced in your own life or have read elsewhere on this website, “life happens.”

The Law Office of Ryan J. Casson understands the interplay between estate planning, trusts and estates disputes, tax law, and matters involving creditor liability and claims, bankruptcy, asset protection, and IRS controversies. Based in Camarillo, California, attorney Ryan J. Casson, a trust and estate litigator, has the unique ability to analyze complex fact patterns involving trusts, tax, and bankruptcy and represent throughout California clients facing litigious matters involving probate, trusts, or business entities.

Future fiduciary liability can be minimized at the estate planning process and, by retaining competent counsel before accepting a role as trustee, executor, or power of attorney, fiduciaries can work to ensure that the objectives of the plan or entity they were asked to protect will be accomplished.

Whether you’re a trustmaker, trustee, a trust beneficiary, a trust protector/director, power of attorney, LLC or partnership member, or judgment creditor, and whether you’re located in Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, Ventura, Los Angeles, or elsewhere in California, Ryan is certain you’ll appreciate having him on your team.

From petitioning a California probate court to remove a trustee or enforce against a beneficiary’s trust inheritance a creditor’s judgment, to business disputes and litigating alleged fraudulent transfers, and to appealing a creditor’s alter ego claim against an LLC and financial elder abuse, the Camarillo Law Office of Ryan J. Casson can handle a wide range of trust and estate, creditors’ rights and judgment enforcement, and bankruptcy disputes.

If this office’s boutique trust and estate litigation and appeals practice can assist you or you are interested in learning more, please contact Ryan at (805) 384-0400.

Litigation & Appeals Services

  • Trust & Probate

    Will and trust contests, petitions to remove and/or appoint trustees, accounting demands/objections, financial elder abuse, and other circumstances requiring court instructions or involvement.

  • Business & Entity

    LLC and partnership claims and disputes. Buy-sells. Operating agreements. Veil-and reverse-veil piercing. Alter ego. Breach of fiduciary duty. Voidable/fraudulent transfers.

  • Judgment Enforcement

    Petitioning for, registering, amending, and enforcing/foreclosing on judgments, charging orders, and liens. Sister State Money Judgment Act. Voidable/fraudulent transfers. Garnishment. Creditors’ Rights.

  • Asset Protection Trusts

    The long and complex project of locating, analyzing, unwinding, and reaching assets titled to an irrevocable trust/entity, often requiring proof of a voidable/fraudulent transfer. Attorney Ryan J. Casson can represent judgment creditors in working to “trust bust,” and trustmakers and beneficiaries defending against it.

  • Adversarial Bankruptcy

    Claims/actions occurring in a bankruptcy case, addressing specific disputes or contested matters. Such proceedings are separate from the main bankruptcy case and involve ancillary claims/actions to determine the dischargeability of a debt, objections to a debtor's plan of reorganization, or challenges to the validity of a lien.

  • Art, Copyright, & Privacy

    Claims of and defense against breach of contract, fraud, and civil asset forfeiture and recovery related to art, antiquities, and collectibles. Claims of and defense against copyright infringement, defamation, and privacy torts (invasion of privacy) against estates and business entities, such as false light and misappropriation of name or likeness, are also handled.