Who We Are

Hi, I’m Hayden Adams, your neighborhood Personal Family Lawyer. My goal is to be your trusted advisor who helps you make the very best personal, financial, and legal decisions for your family throughout your lifetime. I want to help you not just now, but also when you can’t be there so that I can help guide your loved ones through a difficult process.

In short, my sole focus is to help families avoid collapse after the death or disability of a loved one.

I want you to know you’ve made a big step toward peace of mind simply by reading this.

As your Personal Family Lawyer I’d love to start protecting the people you love and everything else you care about today. I look forward to meeting you!

Here’s a little about me.

I was drawn to estate planning when I was helping my aging parents dealing with their affairs. I saw what can happen when affairs are not well organized, and I saw the value a good estate plan can bring to family.

My parents had an old-fashioned marriage. My father was an engineer and handled all of their finances, paid all the bills, and managed their investments… until he got Alzheimers. My siblings and I had to go through piles of bank statements and bills and make endless phone calls to figure out what my parents had and where it was. Worse, my father heard stories about past bank failures, so he had squirreled away funds in several local banks. Eventually we were able to sort it out, but if my parents had all done estate planning the way I do it, all of their assets would have been listed in a Family Wealth Asset Inventory spreadsheet, which would have been so much easier for me and my family.

By contrast, my parents did set up a trust. They named me as a co-trustee and I was able to help them. I paid their bills and managed their affairs. And when they finally passed away, their assets passed according to the terms of the trust, which kept my family out of the probate court.

Prior to my practice in estate planning and probate, I litigated employment-related cases in state and federal courts, as well as arbitrations. I also conduct investigations into allegations of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation for a variety of companies. I have advised employers on policies and handbooks to ensure they are compliant with the law. I worked as a judicial clerk in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Central District of California. During law school, I completed an externship with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Criminal Division, and a judicial externship with the U.S. District Court, both in the Central District of California.

Prior to becoming an attorney, I was a professional actor, singer, and screenwriter, working in theatre, television, and film.