Michael Hackard
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Michael Hackard

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Michael Hackard is a California trust and estate litigation attorney with fifty years of experience representing families in elder financial abuse, inheritance disputes, and trustee misconduct cases.

He is the author of six books on elder vulnerability and family protection: The Wolf at the Door and Inheritance Heists on financial exploitation; Alzheimer's, Widowed Stepmothers & Estate Crimes on cognitive decline as the entry point for inheritance crime; It's Never Just an Accident: Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury and Rebuilding Lives on traumatic brain injury, to which older adults are especially vulnerable; Making Room: A Memoir of Faith, Law and Endurance, a memoir of fifty years fighting for the abused and the vulnerable; and Stolen Inheritance: How the Vulnerable Lose Their Estates - and What Families Can Do.

He is the producer of more than 1,000 educational videos for families navigating estate crises and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means. He is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell for more than 40 years and has received SuperLawyer recognition. He has been interviewed regularly by national media including the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, MSN Money, C-SPAN, and Fox News. He is also the recipient of the 2026 Silver Telly Award in the Law & Crime category for Introducing the Sage, the documentary short on the firm's representation of vulnerable older Americans.

"After thousands of cases, I see the pattern others miss."

Elder Legacy Press is the publishing imprint of Michael Hackard. For legal representation, Hackard Law represents families on a contingency basis throughout California — Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County.
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