Estate Planning Attorney in Orange County, California

Vinh Doan Law Office, APC helps Orange County families plan for incapacity and death with living trusts, wills, powers of attorney and health care directives. Attorney Vinh N. Doan is licensed in California and Texas and works in English and Vietnamese. Our office is in Garden Grove, and every step is also available by Zoom and phone.

What a complete estate plan includes

A complete plan for an Orange County family usually has four parts: a revocable living trust that holds your property, a pour-over will that catches anything left out, a financial power of attorney that lets someone you trust pay bills and manage accounts if you cannot, and an advance health care directive that names who makes medical decisions and states your wishes. For homeowners, the deed to the home must also be changed to the trust, or the trust will not do its job.

Why Orange County families use a living trust

Without a trust, property in your own name generally goes through probate. Probate in California is public, can take a year or more, and carries statutory fees based on the gross value of the property. With Orange County home values, those fees can be large. A living trust that is properly funded avoids probate for the property it holds, keeps your affairs private and lets a successor trustee step in if you become unable to manage your affairs.

Orange County points worth knowing

Probate cases for Orange County residents are handled by the Orange County Superior Court. California has no state estate tax, and the federal exemption is $15,000,000 per person in 2026, so most families owe no estate tax. Moving your home into your own revocable living trust does not by itself trigger a property tax reassessment, but California's Proposition 19 rules can affect property that passes to children, so it is worth planning for.

Orange County cities we serve

• Garden Grove: Our home office city, with a large Vietnamese-speaking community.
• Westminster and Little Saigon: Vietnamese and English speaking estate planning for Westminster and Little Saigon families.
• Santa Ana: Families, multigenerational homes and small businesses in the county seat.
• Irvine: Busy households, higher home values and retirement accounts.
• Anaheim: Homeowners, landlords and small business owners.
• Fountain Valley: Retirement, incapacity planning and the next generation.
• Huntington Beach: Coastal homes, second properties and out-of-state property.

Why families choose our office

We have completed more than 1,700 living trusts, and clients have left us more than 500 Google reviews. We speak Vietnamese and English, we explain each document in the language you are most comfortable in, and we accept MetLife Legal Plans, ARAG and LegalEASE members.