The Singh Law Firm, PC

A single focus on estate planning

The firm works with California clients on estate planning, which sets out how a person's assets pass to family and heirs. The site is clear that this is the only area the firm takes on. That focus shapes the core services it lists: wills, revocable living trusts, pour-over wills, financial powers of attorney, advance health care directives, and guardianship. The firm also handles trust administration, probate, and federal estate tax matters.

Kern Singh and Sharmila Singh co-founded The Singh Law Firm, PC in 2010, and Kern Singh is its CEO. In my opinion, a firm that keeps to one field has room to build real depth in it, and estate planning rewards that kind of steady attention over time.

The range of planning work

The firm's planning goes past the basic documents into more detailed structures. Its advanced work includes irrevocable trusts, dynasty trusts, and grantor retained annuity trusts. The firm also uses irrevocable life insurance trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, special needs trusts, and generation-skipping trusts.

Gifting strategies sit alongside estate, death, and gift tax planning. The firm markets two named packages, the Alpha Legacy Plan and the College Pack Plan. These tools point to work aimed at families with larger or more layered estates, where tax planning carries real weight.

What the advanced trusts do

These structures each solve a particular problem in general practice. A special needs trust lets a family provide for a disabled relative while protecting that person's public benefits. An irrevocable life insurance trust holds a policy outside the taxable estate. A qualified personal residence trust moves a home to the next generation at a reduced tax cost, and a generation-skipping trust passes wealth to grandchildren while managing transfer taxes on the way. Each is a standard tool in estate planning, used to fit a particular family situation.

How the team is built

Kern Singh is Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder, and he works as both an attorney and an investor. His planning work covers Qualified Small Business Stock, or QSBS, along with start-ups, estate taxation, IPOs, and liquidity events. He began his legal career in the San Francisco County District Attorney's Office. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in political science and criminology from UC Irvine, and a JD from Monterey College of Law.

Kern Singh's focus on QSBS, start-ups, and liquidity events lines up with the firm's advanced tax planning. Founders and early employees who hold company stock often face estate and gift tax questions as that stock gains value, and several of the trusts the firm lists are among the tools that address those situations.

Alongside the Singhs, Cavan Cox and Nikki Garcia are listed on the team page with the title of attorney. As a reviewer, I read the clear naming of attorneys and their roles as a useful sign for anyone weighing who would handle their file.

Offices across California

The firm's main office is in Fremont, in the East Bay part of the San Francisco region. It also lists offices in Beverly Hills, Oxnard, Newport Beach, and La Jolla. Those four sit in Southern California, which gives the firm a footprint at both ends of the state.

The firm keeps active profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube, where estate planning firms often share general guidance on wills and trusts. For an estate planning client, a nearby office can matter, since signing wills and trusts often calls for an in-person meeting with witnesses or a notary.

What this kind of work involves

Estate planning of this type usually starts with a small set of core documents. A revocable living trust holds a person's assets during life and directs where they go after death. In many cases it keeps the estate out of probate. A pour-over will catches anything left outside the trust and moves it in, while financial powers of attorney and advance health care directives name someone to act on a person's behalf if they cannot.

Administration and taxes

Trust administration or probate carries out the plan once someone dies. Trust administration follows the terms of the trust and passes assets to the named beneficiaries. Probate runs through the court and can take many months to close. Federal estate tax planning applies mainly to larger estates, and that is where the advanced trusts the firm names tend to come in.

Federal estate tax applies only above a high exemption amount set by Congress, so it reaches a small share of estates. Planning for it usually means moving assets out of the taxable estate ahead of time, which is the aim behind several of the irrevocable trusts the firm lists. Gifting during life, done within annual and lifetime limits, works toward the same goal.

Guardianship is the other piece on the firm's list, and it settles who cares for minor children or a dependent adult if a parent cannot. A court generally reviews who is fit for that role and how the arrangement will run. Federal estate tax matters and the irrevocable trusts sit at the more complex end of the firm's menu. The firm has worked this way since 2010, out of its Fremont base and four other California offices.

A firm boundary on litigation

The firm states plainly that it does not represent clients in litigation matters. It names real property and landlord-tenant disputes as examples. The word "including" signals a broader exclusion, with those two categories illustrating matters outside its scope. A prospective client with an active lawsuit should treat this boundary as applicable even when the disputed property also appears in a will or trust.

This distinction matters when a legal issue has separate planning and contested components. The record supports the firm's work on the planning side, but it gives no basis for expecting its attorneys to file claims, defend a lawsuit, or appear in a property dispute. A person contacting the firm about a mixed matter should identify the contested issue at the outset and confirm the limits of any engagement. The firm states this restriction directly, which gives prospective clients useful information before an initial call.

Contact details and firm identity

The listing distinguishes between the public name, The Singh Law Firm, and the legal name, The Singh Law Firm, PC. Formal documents may carry the full corporate name. The main Fremont contact point is 43480 Mission Blvd. This specific street address allows prospective clients to confirm where a meeting will take place or where correspondence should go.

Two telephone numbers appear in the record: (510) 742-9500 and (888) 828-2864. The website is singhlawfirm.com. These details allow a prospective client to verify that a communication refers to the same firm before sharing personal information. The record does not assign either number to a particular attorney or type of inquiry, so callers should confirm that they have reached the intended office and ask how the firm handles initial contact.