Speaking & Publications
Joshua presents regularly on estate planning and probate administration for Washington practitioners. Recent continuing-legal-education programs are below.
When someone dies without a will, Washington’s intestacy statutes — not the family — decide who inherits and in what shares. Joshua explains how intestate succession works in Washington, the role of the probate court when there is no estate plan, and the common, avoidable complications that fall to the people left behind.
View the program at KCBA ↗Much of a modern estate never passes through the probate court. This segment covers Washington’s nonprobate assets — beneficiary designations, joint tenancy with right of survivorship, payable-on-death and transfer-on-death accounts, and revocable living trusts — how each transfers outside the probate estate, how they coordinate (or conflict) with a will, and the practical pitfalls for personal representatives and beneficiaries.
View the program at KCBA ↗