Real Planning for Your AssetsEstate Planning and Corporate Tax Attorney
We don’t take a one-size-fits-all approach. Every California estate planning engagement is designed to uniquely fit your family, your timing, and your goals.
Counsel for Every Stage of Life and Business
Whether you are parents naming a guardian, or founders preparing for a sale, we design plans to take care of the people and assets that matter to you.
Individuals and Families
Revocable living trusts, guardianship nominations, and incapacity planning for parents, married couples, single people, and US citizens with non-citizen spouses.
Learn More →Entrepreneurs and Investors
Choice of entity, tax optimization, business exit planning, and estate plans that integrate your business, your wealth, and your legacy.
Learn More →US Citizens & Green Card Holders Abroad, Foreign Investors
Cross-border estate plans, foreign beneficiaries, U.S. property held by non-citizens, and coordination with counsel in other jurisdictions.
Learn More →Financial Advisors, Attorneys and CPAs
We are a collaborative partner for your clients’ trust, tax, and succession work, so that every part of their plan works with the rest of their team.
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Yana founded Foros Law to provide her clients with more personal attention in resolving their legal matters in a timely and efficient way. Yana believes that one can enjoy life more fully when one’s affairs are in order, the assets are protected, and one’s family is taken care of.
With a 20-year career (admitted to the California Bar in December 2006) and a J.D. from the Santa Clara University School of Law, Yana brings deep expertise and compassionate counsel to every client. Her practice brings estate planning, income and estate tax strategy, business succession, and cross-border and pre-immigration planning into one coordinated plan. She works with clients in English and Russian.
Learn More About YanaTax-Smart Planning in Every Aspect
Estate Planning and Planning for Incapacity
Revocable living trusts, pour-over wills, advance health care directives, and powers of attorney. Plus, review and re-titling of your real estate, so the plan is properly funded and actually works.
Learn More →Probate & Estate Administration
Court-supervised probate and trust administration in California, including the added complexities of probating assets of non-US citizens.
Learn More →International Estate Planning
Coordinated wills, trusts, and asset structures for families whose lives and assets extend beyond one country’s borders.
Learn More →Tax Optimization & Business Exit Planning
Choice of entity, tax-efficient restructuring, and an exit strategy built into the business long before a transaction is on the table.
Learn More →Entrepreneur-Focused Estate Planning
Business succession, buy-sell agreements, trust ownership, and asset protection integrated with your personal estate plan.
Learn More →Real Planning, Not Just Paperwork
The core of every estate plan in California is a revocable trust: the only mechanism to avoid probate, an expensive, time-consuming process that is open to the public.
A Coordinated Plan Across Your Assets
We bring federal and state income tax planning, estate tax strategy, business succession, and cross-border considerations into a single plan so that you can make tax-informed decisions before consequential ones are made for you.
Tax Strategist for Families & Business Owners
We read your entity structure and balance sheet alongside your estate plan, letting you see the actual tax consequences of a decision before it is made.
Tax Optimization →Estate, Income & Cross-Border Tax Planning
We create revocable trusts, gift and estate tax strategy, and income tax planning built as whole, cohesive plans, instead of separate documents that never quite meet.
Estate Planning →Business Succession
Buy-sell agreements, trust ownership of business interests, and a plan for who owns and runs the company if you retire, become disabled, or pass away.
Entrepreneur Planning →Pre-Immigration Planning
Decisions made before you become a U.S. tax resident shape your exposure for years afterward. We review assets, entities, and trusts while every option is still open.
Pre-Immigration Planning →Advisor Collaboration
We work alongside your CPAs, wealth managers, immigration counsel, and trustees so that one team is reading the whole picture instead of four reading parts of it.
Working With Advisors →What Our Clients Say
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