Julie King

With 30+ years’ experience, Julie King practices law with the highest standards of ethics and professionalism. She is easy to speak with and talks in plain English (not legalese). Julie handles a wide variety of estate planning and business matters including: (1) ESTATE PLANNING - wills and trusts, health care directives, powers of attorney, special needs trusts, pet trusts, grant deeds and more; and (2) BUSINESS LAW - corporation/LLC/partnership formation, annual meeting minutes, corporate records, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and employee training.

Julie served as in-house counsel to major international corporations, including Toshiba America, where she worked for 15 years and hired lawyers throughout the world. She has been a "client", so she understands clients' needs in a way many lawyers do not. Contact Julie today and see the difference!

Call or email today for a FREE initial consultation! (831) 275-1002 Julie@PierceKingLaw.com

Univ of California at Los Angeles

Undergraduate Degree

Loyola Law School

Law Degree

Founding Attorney

Pierce King, P.C., a Professional Law Corporation

2012 - Current

BUSINESS LAW - Negotiating and drafting a variety of complex business contracts, including an international Private Cloud Infrastructure and Management Services Agreement and a Funding Agreement involving the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. - Forming C and S Corporations, LLCs and Partnerships, and drafting documents related thereto, such as Buy-Sell and Operating Agreements, Bylaws, Annual Meeting Minutes and Board Resolutions. ESTATE PLANNING - Drafting a variety of wills and trusts (including Revocable Living Trusts, Special Needs Trusts and Pet Trusts), Health Care Directives and Durable Powers of Attorney, as well as Grant Deeds and other documentation relating to funding trusts. - Counseling clients in Trust Administration matters - Preparing, filing and representing clients in Probate actions

Director, Contracts and Intellectual Property

CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC

2007 - 2012

Assistant General Counsel

Toshiba America

1991 - 2006

Julie was an in-house counsel for Toshiba for 15 years and handled a wide variety of matters for the corporation. She helped the Human Resources Dept. with employment matters and policy drafting, the Sales Dept. with contracts, the Finance Dept. with guaranties, and anyone else in the company who needed assistance in any area of law. She would be honored to do the same for you. Call today!

License to Practice Law

California Bar Association

BEST LAWYER IN MONTEREY COUNTY

Monterey Herald Reader's Poll

2021

BEST LAWYER IN MONTEREY COUNTY

Monterey Herald Reader's Poll

2020

BEST LAWYER IN MONTEREY COUNTY

Monterey Herald Reader's Poll

2019

Woman of Distinction in the Legal Community

Los Angeles Bar Association

Volunteer of the Month (Awarded multiple times.)

Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

IMPOWER (Business women motivating each other and helping our community)

Member, Board of Directors

2021 - Current

Central Coast Human Resources Association

Member, Board of Directors

2019 - Current

Monterey Peninsula Chamber of Commerce

Ambassador

2014 - Current

Monterey County Bar Association

Member

2007 - Current

California State Bar  # 132813

Member

1987 - Current

California

Since 1987

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  Pierce King, P.C. bills hourly or charges a flat fee, depending on the type of matter. On occasion, Pierce King may enter into an alternative fee arrangement to accommodate clients in special circumstances.

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Estate Planning

Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills

• Form Corporations, LLCs and Partnerships
• Business Transactions & Contracts
• Trusts, Wills, Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives
• Real Estate Grant Deeds and Related Documentation

Q. If I was my grandmothers beneficiary and she had purchased 4 cemetery plots with only one remaining can I sell it

August 8, 2022

A: The answer depends on whether your grandmother had a trust or will, what the trust or will says, whether there are other beneficiaries, and more information that is not contained in your answer. Unfortunately, a lawyer needs more information to help you. Sorry about that!

Q. 2002 Trust was created. If surviving spouse disclaims "any" interest in deceased spouse property, ..............

August 4, 2022

A: I'm sorry to say that a lawyer cannot answer this question without reading both the trust and the disclaimer. It's a bit like giving two lines of a book and asking a question about the whole book. Sorry about that!

Q. Do I need a will? Trust? Or are RDP papers enough? See question below.

July 25, 2022

A: Good questions! The law in California divides people’s estates [your assets left behind at death] into two categories: (1) estates with assets totaling $184,500 or less in value; and (2) estates with assets valued at more than $184,500. People who would fall within the second category — which is almost everyone who owns real estate in California — should do some estate planning because, if they don’t, their assets will go to family members designated by law after 1 - 3 years of court hearings in Probate Court. If you want your assets to go to your partner and you aren’t married, it is ESSENTIAL that you have a trust or will. A trust would avoid the whole Probate Court process and allow the distribution of assets to take place privately. If you had a will instead of a trust, your loved ones would be required by law to go through the public probate process, which means anyone who is interested could see all your assets, all of your debts, and a lot of other information about your family and you. This is a high-level overview of the law. A lawyer would need to learn more information before giving you advice on an estate plan that will work best in your situation. Finally, I cannot comment on any online estate planning because I haven’t read the documents they’re selling. But I can say that estate planning is a very hands-on, detailed process and I’ve seen people buy notebooks full of documents from insurance companies and, because the people didn’t know what to do with the documents, ended up wasting their money because their estate ended up going through probate anyway and judges award the assets to family members listed in the law, not the people the deceased folks say they wanted. Best wishes.