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Sonoma Law Partners PC is honored to exhibit Athena Ting’s piece Birds of a Feather are Stronger Together that was created for Trashion Fashion, the yearly fashion extravaganza at the crossroads of upcycling, creativity and fashion. This piece also has another element to it, raising awareness about mental health.
This collaborative piece is the work of designer Athena Ting, Keva Tillem, and Jeanie Croshaw. It was based on the interplay between beauty and mental health as the feathers were collected from birds that enjoy the Napa State Hospital as their home.
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A living trust lets you manage your assets such as money, property, and business interests, with you as the one in charge as trustee. It also provides for how you want your assets managed if you are unable to do so. In those situations, a successor trustee named by you will manage your assets to your benefit during your lifetime and then distribute those assets to your beneficiaries as named in your trust without going through and paying a court.
We want to help every family to have an estate plan. Our new Trust series will explore the basics of estate planning, show you how to navigate the trust process, determine if and when you need legal help, and assist you as needed.
As our world becomes increasingly digitized, when we die, we leave an expansive digital footprint. For many, this footprint includes assets, intellectual property and other information such as copyrights, photos, pictures, messages, digital currenc(ies), passwords and more. An ever increasing question is who has access to these things after we leave the planet.
It’s that time of year when property owners look towards paying that tax bill. Your property tax bill includes payments for various things, other than property tax. In addition to property tax, the bill includes charges for voter approved taxes and direct charges from taxing agencies. These charges are all specifically identified on one’s bill for property taxes. A little-known fact is that these additional amounts sometimes will include various exemptions. The most common is for senior citizens, defined as age sixty-five (65) or older. Luckily for folks reaching this category, they can go through this list of charges and … 
This year we are focused on some new ideas to be more present in your lives, combining roots in the community with our deep-seated understanding of how real live translates into your legal needs.
Caregivers traverse an unknown terrain of new responsibilities. Come learn how foundational legal documents … 
What sets us apart from the competition? Everything. We are a community-based law firm focused on the business of law from the perspective of those we serve. We use our knowledge of the law to build a better world starting right here, right now. For more than 100 years, our firm has enhanced and enriched Sonoma and the surrounding community one individual and one business at a time. Our practice includes business, estate planning, real estate, and employment law, meeting personal and business needs with an emphasis on family-owned
SONOMA, CA – February 6, 2023 – The combination of two local law firms, Sonoma Law Partners PC (SLP) and Wright & Supple (W&S) expands SLP’s services to include employment law counsel through a joint effort that redefines collaboration. SLP partners Mary Piasta and Tony Valluzzo continue to reinvent the law firm business model, working with W&S, a women-owned employment law firm led by Mary Wright and Oriet Cohen-Supple. As transformational change continues to rock the legal industry, this innovative approach offers clients the legal services they need across the full spectrum of business and employment law, while controlling costs … 
Wine Country has its beauty, including the many people who flock here to live. It is becoming more common for non-citizens to take up abodes here. This goes back to the founding of Sonoma heavily influenced by international residents. For those interested in a delightful historic recap consider viewing the documentary the 
ex-Partner Thomas A. Haeuser (retired) takes on new role as SLP advisor and community leader
Our year-end checklist provides useful tips for year-round check-ups.
A recent legacy case illustrates how Proposition 19 impacts grandparents wishing to leave their family vineyard property to their granddaughter.
We can work with you to review your business, real estate, and family holdings for tax issues to craft and maintain your succession plan for life, and what comes after.
One of the major exclusions from property reassessment is the exclusion of real property that is owned by a legal entity, such as a corporation, partnership, or LLC, as provided in Revenue & Taxation Code section 64. In a nutshell, it provides that when realty is owned by a legal entity, certain changes in the ownership of the entity do not constate sale of the realty itself, unless a new person or entity gains control of the entity. For example, if real property is owned by a corporation, shares of … 
SLP Partner Tony Valluzzo Named to 2021 “Lawyers of Distinction” List by Sonoma Magazine
SONOMA, CA – July 26, 2021 – Prominent business and estate planning law firm Sonoma Law Partners PC is pleased to announce that 
SONOMA, Calif. – May, 2021 – Reinventing the law firm business model, SLP lawyers return to the basics of legal services with an emphasis on lawyers and staff working together to offer a concierge service experience. The addition of staffers Lori Beth Merrill and Penny Martin underscores SLP’s long-standing reputation for working seamlessly with clients. Committed to providing the ‘white glove’ treatment . Penny’s adept management of client-attorney interactions and communications and Lori Beth’s background as a real estate appraiser complement the legal services offered by SLP’s two partners, Anthony R. Valluzzo, and Mary Piasta.
Join the discussion between lawyer Mary Piasta and Lori Beth Merrill of Sonoma Law Partners PC as they discuss the things you want to know about fiduciaries, what they are, how they are regulated, and how they can help loved ones.
In this day and age of websites, blogs, coaching programs and such, if you own a business that has these things, if something were to happen to you, what would happen to these things?
When we talk of asset protection, many think of bankruptcy. But there is a social norm with this type of word preventing many from considering it seriously. The truth is that many very wealthy individuals in our country are not so dissuaded and utilize filing for bankruptcy as a means to preserve wealth.