Estate planning attorney Russell Griffith in Encinitas holds California State Bar License #120564 and has structured living trusts, wills, and advance directives from his Village Park Way office since 1985. The practice also handles business formation—incorporating LLCs, corporations, and partnerships for small-business owners who often launch from shared workspace environments like Union Cowork before scaling to dedicated offices. Probate court representation guides administrators and executors through California's supervised estate process when decedents pass without a trust and hold assets exceeding the $184,500 small-estate threshold. Real estate transaction services cover commercial purchases, lease negotiations, easement agreements, and ownership-structure advice, with property condition assessments sometimes involving reserve-study consultants such as McCaffery Reserve Consulting for HOA-governed holdings. Highest-complexity cases involve multi-party probate and trust litigation alleging breach of fiduciary duty, financial elder abuse under Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.30, and contested amendments to irrevocable trusts requiring court reformation under Probate Code Section 15409.