Rachel Buller
Rachel Buller
Biography
Rachel Buller is a skilled attorney with over two decades of experience specializing in probate, trust, estate, and conservatorship litigation across Northern and Southern California. Prior to joining Keystone, she began her legal career in complex commercial civil litigation before establishing and managing a comprehensive trust and estate practice, where she provided advanced estate planning and asset protection strategies. She represents trustees, beneficiaries, heirs, conservators, and guardians in contested trust matters, will contests, elder financial abuse claims, and trust administration disputes.
Deeply compassionate and hands-on, Rachel guides clients through difficult family dynamics with empathy while maintaining a steadfast determination to fight for justice and protect their interests. Outside of her practice, she is an active member of her local community. In addition to coaching youth soccer for over a decade, she regularly volunteers at her church and serves on several local boards, including her current role as a Board member for the National Charity League.
Rachel Buller
Senior Associate
Phone: 424.403.1668
Email: rbuller@keystone-law.com
Biography
Rachel Buller is a skilled attorney with over two decades of experience specializing in probate, trust, estate, and conservatorship litigation across Northern and Southern California. Prior to joining Keystone, she began her legal career in complex commercial civil litigation before establishing and managing a comprehensive trust and estate practice, where she provided advanced estate planning and asset protection strategies. She represents trustees, beneficiaries, heirs, conservators, and guardians in contested trust matters, will contests, elder financial abuse claims, and trust administration disputes.
Deeply compassionate and hands-on, Rachel guides clients through difficult family dynamics with empathy while maintaining a steadfast determination to fight for justice and protect their interests. Outside of her practice, she is an active member of her local community. In addition to coaching youth soccer for over a decade, she regularly volunteers at her church and serves on several local boards, including her current role as a Board member for the National Charity League.
Education
Rachel received her undergraduate degree with a major in the Sociology of Law from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She received a master’s degree from the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, located in Spain, and her law degree from Whittier College, where she was a Dean’s Merit Scholar.
Bar Admissions
- California State Bar
- United States District Court, Central Distract
Memberships
- California Lawyers Association – Trusts & Estates Litigation Sections
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Trusts & Estates Litigation Sections
- Placer County Bar Association, Estate Planning / Probate Section
Representative Matters
- Litigated and defended actions challenging or upholding estate planning documents based on claims of mental incapacity, undue influence, fraud, duress, and forgery.
- Petitioned courts to modify, reform, or adjust irrevocable trusts in light of changed circumstances, unanticipated events, or ambiguous drafting to safeguard assets and uphold settlor intent.
- Represented beneficiaries facing uncooperative or breaching trustees, securing trustee removals, financial surcharges, asset recovery, and the designation of independent fiduciaries.
- Prosecuted and defended financial elder abuse matters, unwinding unauthorized property transfers, safeguarding living settlors' assets, and defending rightful heirs.
- Guided administrators, executors, and trustees through all phases of multi-faceted trust and probate proceedings across California.
- Finalized intricate probate matters by managing court-supervised real property sales, overseeing statutory creditor resolution, executing final distributions, and formally closing estates.
- Advised trustees and personal representatives throughout post-death administration to ensure strict statutory compliance, mitigate operational risk, and preempt beneficiary litigation.
- Represented family members and interested parties in court proceedings to establish conservatorships for incapacitated adults and guardianships for minor children, securing legal authority over medical, financial, and personal care choices.
- Enforced valid creditor claims against trust and estate assets while resolving high-stakes disputes through mediations, court-mandated settlement conferences, and arbitrations.
Interests
Outside of the office, Rachel enjoys playing golf, skiing, discovering local coffee shops, and traveling with her family.