Collins Law Group

What the firm concentrates on

The firm works from Inglewood, California, and handles estate and business planning for clients across the greater Los Angeles area. Its core areas are living trusts, trust administration, and long-term care and Medi-Cal planning. Collins Law Group also lists elder abuse work, and it states that it has recovered assets for elderly clients.

Estate planning covers a long list of documents here. The firm prepares living trusts, simple and complex wills, powers of attorney, living wills, and irrevocable trusts. It also sets up family limited partnerships and charitable gifting strategies for clients who want to move assets during their lifetime.

Other named services point to particular life situations. The firm handles incapacity planning, IRA and retirement planning, special needs planning, and pet planning. It also names legacy planning and estate planning for members of the LGBTQ community.

Work for family-owned businesses

Estate planning for a family business turns on succession: who runs the company next, how ownership passes down, and how the business holds together while an owner steps back or dies. Retirement accounts add another layer, since an IRA passes by beneficiary designation and needs to line up with the rest of a plan. The firm names both family-business planning and IRA and retirement planning among its services.

How the estate tools work

The documents the firm prepares each take effect at a set point. A living trust holds assets during a person's life and passes them to named beneficiaries without going through probate. Because the trust already owns the assets, the family can skip the delay and the public record that probate brings. A power of attorney names someone to handle financial or medical decisions if the client loses capacity.

Trust administration begins once the person who created the trust dies or can no longer manage their affairs. The named trustee collects assets, pays debts and taxes, and gives the rest to the beneficiaries. California trustees also owe beneficiaries notice and, on request, an accounting of what they have done. Probate is the court version of this: it runs through the California courts and follows a will or the state's default rules. The firm handles both routes.

Partnerships and charitable gifts

A family limited partnership is a business entity that families use to hold assets and pass them to the next generation. The senior members can keep control as general partners while limited partner shares move down over time. Charitable gifting works on a different footing: a client supports a cause and shapes the tax treatment of the gift, sometimes through a trust that pays income for a term before the remainder goes to charity. The firm lists both tools on its services page.

Planning for care and later life

Incapacity planning deals with the stretch of time when a person is alive but cannot make decisions. A living will records someone's wishes for medical care near the end of life, and a power of attorney for health care names who speaks for them. These documents work before a trust or a will ever comes into play. The firm lists incapacity planning and living wills among its services.

Long-term care and Medi-Cal planning answers a cost problem. Families face the price of nursing or in-home care, and Medi-Cal applies income and asset limits before it pays. Planning early can protect some assets while a person keeps eligibility for benefits, since transfers made too late can carry penalties. In my opinion, keeping this beside the estate work suits clients who weigh both their own care and what they pass on.

Special needs, pets and elder protection

Special needs planning follows a similar logic for a different person. A special needs trust can hold money for someone with a disability while guarding their access to public benefits. Pet planning sets aside funds and names a caretaker for an animal, which California law allows through a pet trust. The firm names both.

Elder abuse work covers the harder cases in this area. Financial abuse matters turn on tracing money or property that left an older person's control, often through undue influence or misused authority. Such claims can move through civil court, and a judge can order an accounting or the return of property. The firm states that it has helped victims of elder abuse and recovered assets for elderly clients.

Who leads the work

Caprice L. Collins founded the firm and is its managing attorney. She graduated from Harvard Law School and has more than forty years of experience in estate planning, business planning and trust administration. Her work includes estate planning for high net worth individuals through family limited partnerships and other business entities.

Collins speaks on wills, living trusts, estate planning, business planning and trust administration. She holds membership in the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys, the State Bar of California, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. The academy membership ties the firm to a national group focused on this field. The firm's site does not list a founding year.

The support team

A small staff backs the attorney work. Stracy Lyons is the office manager and supervising paralegal. Cameron I. Adams works as a paralegal, and Jason Jenkins is the marketing coordinator. The firm names all three on its attorney profiles page.

Learning events and access

The firm runs free seminars and webinars on wills, living trusts and asset protection. These sessions give people a way to understand the basic tools before any paid work begins. As a reviewer, I read that kind of public teaching as a sign the firm wants clients who already grasp the outline of a plan. The webinar format also reaches people who cannot travel to a room, and regular events like these let someone meet the firm before deciding anything.

A Se Habla Espanol banner runs in the site header, and the firm offers service in Spanish. For families in this part of Los Angeles County, clear language matters when estate documents carry legal weight and every clause has to be understood. The firm also keeps active profiles on Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Where the firm works

Collins Law Group lists Los Angeles County as its main service area. Named communities include Inglewood, Malibu, Santa Monica, Torrance and Venice. The Inglewood office puts the firm within reach of both coastal and inland neighborhoods.

The named services and the senior attorney point the same way: estate planning, trusts, and the long-term care that runs alongside them for LA-area families. The office is in Inglewood, and the service area covers Los Angeles County.