Pretty much everyone has been affected by the Covid-19 “Safer at Home” order. Almost everything we do here at Williamson & Gentilini involves face-to-face meetings with clients. The documents that we draft here are designed to plan for illness and death. Because of the nature of what we do, the City of Long Beach Department of Economic Development has determined that we are an “essential business” that may remain open during these times. Nevertheless, for the safety of our clients and staff we will be significantly reducing our hours and the number of face-to-face meetings.

For the month May we will not be seeing any clients face-to-face, but we will still be working.

If you are a new client trying to get an appointment to do your estate planning, you have a couple choices. First, you can schedule an appointment out far enough in the future that we may be clear of the “Stay at Home” order. Second, we can do a trust consultation by phone and schedule a professional notary to bring them to you for notarization. These are difficult times, but we can get your documents done so that your planning is in place.

If you are an existing client who has already had your trust consultation and are now waiting to sign your finished documents, we think we will be scheduling signing appointments beginning in June. In the alternative, we can also schedule professional notary to bring them to you for notarization.

If you are an existing client who wishes to make changes to your completed documents, call or email us, and we will make the arrangements to get changes and amendments done for you.

Through the month of May we will be in the office but with limited office hours. Generally, we will be in from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to get messages, return phone calls, and work on client documents. If you call and get our answering machine, please leave a message and we will return the call.

Thank you for your patience.