Top Rated Estate Planning & Probate Attorney in Los Angeles, CA

Mitchell A. Port is a solo practitioner who is based in Los Angeles, California. Representing individuals, families, estates, trusts and businesses in Los Angeles and throughout California, he divides his practice among the areas of probate, trust administration, estate planning, and federal and state tax controversies with the IRS and the Franchise Tax Board.

Mitch Port’s probate experience encompasses a gamut of cases such as will contests, breaches of fiduciary duties, lost wills, fraudulent wills, the identification and distribution of assets to heirs and other beneficiaries, to mention just a few.  In his estate planning practice, Mitch prepares and reviews wills, living trusts, advance health care directives and financial powers of attorney.

Before entering private practice, Mitch spent several years with the Internal Revenue Service, first in collections and then as an attorney handling contested cases. This experience has aided him in his representation of clients who are involved in matters with that agency or with the California Franchise Tax Board. Those matters have included challenges such as bank levies, wage garnishments, offers in compromise, innocent spouse relief and the misclassification of workers for payroll tax liability, to mention a few examples.

Mitch Port has earned the high regard of his fellow attorneys for the quality of his work in all of these endeavors, including an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell and a 10.0 "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo. A 1978 recipient of a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, he also holds a Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School and an LL.M. in taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Mitch Port is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Districts of California, the U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

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