Founded in the early 1960s on Cable St, Gallagher, Bolander, Smedley, LLP is a three-attorney estate-planning and probate firm staffed by Lauren Gallagher (State Bar #229972), Lori Bolander (State Bar #235681), and Carly Maganuco — a State Bar of California Certified Legal Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law. Revocable living trusts, pour-over wills, advance health care directives, and durable powers of attorney are the core documents drafted, with long-term care provisions written to integrate with facilities including Sunset Cliffs Elder Care so Medi-Cal planning and caregiver agreements align. Trust administration covers post-death trustee duties, notice to heirs under Probate Code §16061.7, creditor claims, asset retitling, and fiduciary income-tax filings. Probate work handles full-and-limited estate administrations in San Diego Superior Courts Probate Division, with Carly also serving as Court-Appointed Attorney and Guardian Ad Litem there. Beneficiary-designation reviews and trust-funded brokerage retitling run alongside advisors such as Edward Jones - Financial Advisor: Nate Hockstra so the investment account and the trust instrument do not disagree about who inherits. The most involved files are adoption matters handled by Lori — a niche built on her own lived experience as an adoptee — where stepparent, independent, and agency adoptions each move through distinct California Family Code procedures.