Fremont Attorney — Wills and Trusts, Business, and Real Estate
Volo Law serves Fremont and southern Alameda County from its office in San Jose, twenty-odd minutes down 880. Attorney Tony Bayard de Volo handles wills and trusts, business and transactional law, and real estate matters at flat fees quoted before any work begins. The first 20-minute consultation is free.
Most people looking for a lawyer start by searching for one nearby, on the assumption that legal work requires showing up somewhere. For the kind of work this firm does, it mostly doesn’t. Questionnaires are completed online. Drafts are reviewed by email. Signing happens once, and it can happen at our office or at your kitchen table with a local notary.
What that means for a Fremont client is that the choice isn’t between a nearby attorney and a distant one. It’s between attorneys, on the merits.
Why a Living Trust Matters More in Fremont
Here is the part most Fremont families don’t know until they’re in it. Alameda County consolidated its probate calendars years ago, and probate matters are no longer regularly heard at the Fremont Hall of Justice. They are calendared at the Berkeley Courthouse — roughly 30 miles north, through some of the worst traffic in the Bay Area, repeatedly, over the twelve to eighteen months a probate typically takes.
So the argument for avoiding probate is stronger in Fremont than almost anywhere. And avoiding it is not complicated: a properly drafted and properly funded living trust keeps the estate out of court entirely. Your successor trustee distributes the assets under the terms you wrote, with no hearings, no filings, and no statutory fees calculated on the gross value of your home.
That last point is what catches Fremont homeowners. California’s small-estate procedures are measured against gross value — the full value of the property, before the mortgage. A house in Mission San Jose, Ardenwood, or Warm Springs clears that threshold on its own. Having a modest income or little in savings doesn’t change the outcome. If the house is titled in your name at death, your family is going to Berkeley.
Volo Law prepares a complete will and trust package for a $1,000 flat fee, including the deed transferring your Fremont property into the trust.
Business and Transactional Law for Fremont Companies
Fremont has a denser concentration of manufacturing, engineering, and supplier businesses than most Bay Area cities — the Warm Springs corridor alone anchors a long supply chain of small firms. Those businesses need the ordinary things: the right entity, an agreement among owners, supplier and customer contracts that allocate risk sensibly, and corporate records that survive scrutiny when a customer or lender asks.
We form S corporations, LLCs, and partnerships at a $700 flat fee, draft and review contracts of every kind — professional services, contractor agreements, indemnification, buy-sell, asset purchase and sale, leases, warehouse and shipping documents — and prepare the annual minutes and resolutions that keep an entity in good standing.
Real Estate Matters in Fremont
Attorney Bayard de Volo is a lawyer and a licensed California real estate broker who runs his own brokerage, Legal Realty. For Fremont property owners that means one advisor across purchase agreements, commercial and residential leases, quiet title actions, easements and boundary disputes, promissory notes and deeds of trust, and broker price opinions.
Fremont’s older districts — Niles, Centerville, Irvington — carry the boundary and permit issues that come with long-established housing: fences that predate anyone’s memory of the recorded line, and additions or converted garages done without permits that surface during a sale. Both are far cheaper to resolve before a property goes on the market.
How Working With Us Works From Fremont
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The consultation is by phone. Twenty minutes, free, and you’ll know what you need and what it costs.
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Intake is online. The client questionnaire runs over a secure connection, at your own pace.
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Review is by email. We send your documents as PDFs. You read them and tell us what to change.
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Signing is your choice. Come to the San Jose office, or we prepare the complete Trust Book and mail it with explanation stickers on every document, “Sign Here” tabs, and a notary page pre-filled with your name. You sign it with any notary.
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The fee is the same either way, and nothing is charged until you sign or the book ships.
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Talk to an Attorney Serving Fremont
Whether you need a trust before your family ends up in Berkeley, are forming a business, or have a property matter that needs sorting, the first conversation is free. Attorney Tony Bayard de Volo handles every matter personally.
Volo Law · 1541 The Alameda, San Jose CA 95126 · 408-288-5431 · tony@vololaw.com