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- How Does a Non Party Object to a Subpoena Duces Tecum in Florida on Grounds of Privilege?
- Does it Matter if a Florida Probate Proceeding is Adversarial?
- Can the Settlor Amend an Irrevocable Trust 25 Years Later?
- Can a Guardian of Property Replace a Trustee of a Revocable Trust?
- Is a Conveyance of a Beneficial Interest of a Trust With a Spendthrift Clause Void or Voidable?
- Vermont Supreme Court Invalidates Will for Undue Influence
- Modifying a Revocable Trust in California: What does “Provides Otherwise” Really Mean?
- Alabama Classifies Embryos as Children for Wrongful Death Act Purposes
- Inheritance Rights of Children Conceived After Death
- When May a Professional Guardian Withhold Life-Prolonging Procedures Without Court Approval under the New Florida Statute, Section 744.4431?
- What Happens When the Defendant in a Civil Lawsuit in California Dies?
- Can Trust Beneficiaries Who Did Not Sign an Arbitration Agreement Be Forced to Arbitrate?
- Updated for 2024: Estate and Gift Tax Chart for Non US Persons (Greencard Holders and NRA’s)
- Trusts and Estate Breaking News
- Is Filing a Motion to Substitute Under Rule 1.260 Sufficient When There Is No Personal Representative?
- Does One Co-Owner of Property Owe the Other Co-Owners Rent?
- Waiver of Florida Homestead Rights Requires Strict Compliance
- Trial Continuance Denied: The New Rule 1.460
- How to Compute Breach of Trust Damages Based on Unpaid Rent
- How to Sue an Estate in Federal Court
- Can RICO Be Used in a Trust Dispute?
- Elon Musk Avoids Deposition Under the Apex Doctrine
- When Does a Medicaid Recovery Claim Arise Under Alaskan Law?
- What is a Notice of Proposed Action Under California Law?
- What is a Conservatorship in California?
- Can you Challenge Joint Account Titling in California After Death?
- Does the Major League Baseball Players’ Contract Require Arbitration Between Employees of the Same Club?
- A Dog Named Licorice
- Trustee of Inter Vivos Revocable Trust Has Duty to Collect Trust Assets
- Are Oral Promises Enforceable Against an Estate in California?
- Trust Beneficiary Lacked Standing to Enforce Rights of Trust
- Can You Amend a Revocable Trust Without Following the Terms of the Trust?
- Can You Appeal an Order Removing a Personal Representative for Breach When Damages Not Determined?
- Will Contests Under Carpenter: Building Bigger and Better
- When is a Motion for Rehearing Required in Probate Matters?
- Connecticut Supreme Court Strikes In Terrorem Clause Governing Estate Administration
- Can You Be Liable for Punitive Damages for Stealing Someone’s DNA?
- Can Second Cousins Inherit in Florida?
- Can You Sue An Out-of-State Attorney for Estate Planning Malpractice in Florida?
- Technical Defect in Changing Life Insurance Beneficiary Designation Fails
- North Dakota Supreme Court Applies Uniform Probate Code to Clarify Scope of Probate Court’s Subject Matter Jurisdiction
- Is an Estate’s Lawyer Liable for Breach of Fiduciary Duty to the Beneficiaries?
- Do You Have to Be the Personal Representative When You Sue a Nursing Home in Florida on Behalf of a Deceased Resident?
- Can a Convicted Felon Be a Guardian in Florida?
- Is a Marital Agreement Truly Unambiguous Under Florida Law With a Dissent?
- How to Take Control of Company when the Estate Refuses to Do So
- How do You Terminate a Joint Tenancy With Right of Survivorship in Florida?
- Can you Fix an Invalid Homestead Bequest in Florida?
- Is an Inheritance Advance Marital Property in a Divorce?
- District Court Halts Government Censorship
- Can You Dismiss Your Case After the Judge Rules Against You From the Bench But Before the Written Ruling?
- Can An Estate Be Re-Opened After 60 Years?
- Timely Creditor Claim Required to Pursue Insurance and Employer Recoveries in Florida
- Ohio Power of Attorney Act Prohibits Self Dealing
- Can You Get Appellate Attorney’s Fees In a Florida Partition Action?
- Signature Card Trumps Unities Of Title In Florida Dispute Over Tenants By The Entireties Account
- Can a Florida Court Restrict a Defendant’s Assets To Ensure Collection Of a Potential Money Judgment?
- Ministerial Act Exception Used To Deny Surviving Spouse Status In New York County Surrogate’s Court
- Florida Homestead Property Not Beyond the Reach Of Creditors When Acquired With Funds Obtained Through Fraud
- South Dakota Supreme Court Determines Surviving Spouse’s Creditor Claim Timely Presented
- Is a Florida Probate Court Required To Appoint the Nominated Personal Representative In Decedent’s Will?
- What Are the Different Types Of Estate Proceedings in New Jersey?
- What Is The Privity Rule In Texas Estate Planning Malpractice Claims?
- What Is Ancillary Probate In New Jersey?
- Florida Slayer Statute Does Not Require a Murder Conviction To Apply
- Georgia Supreme Court: In Terrorem Clause Does Not Result In Forfeiture In Successful Will Or Trust Contest
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Surviving Spouse Must Revoke Elective Share Election Within Six-Month Statutory Period
- Texas Supreme Court: No Right To a Jury Trial In Trust Modification Actions
- Oklahoma Supreme Court: Revocation Upon Divorce Statute Only Applies Upon Final Judgment Of Divorce
- Who Can Serve As the Fiduciary Of a Connecticut Estate?
- What Is a Petition For Year’s Support In Georgia Probate?
- Texas Appellate Court Reviews Undue Influence and Testamentary Capacity Will Contest Basics
- U.S. Supreme Court: Medicaid Act Allows State To Seek Reimbursement From Settlement Payments For Future (Not Just Past) Medical Care
- When Can a Will Be Modified Or Reformed Under Texas Law?
- Ohio Executor Or Administrator Has Three Months From Appointment To Present Claim To Probate Court
- How Do You Revoke a Will In Arizona?
- How Do You Settle a Small Estate In Pennsylvania?
- Florida Probate Court Reversed For Failing To Follow New Summary Judgment Rule
- Iowa Supreme Court: Surviving Settlor Cannot Modify Irrevocable Trust Without Court Approval
- Florida Appellate Court: Girlfriend Cannot Keep Wrongfully Transferred Tenancy By the Entireties Assets
- Premarital Agreement Waives Surviving Spouse Rights In California
- What Is the Family Exemption In Pennsylvania Probate?
- Kentucky Supreme Court: Bank Committed Breach By Failing To Follow Trust Code and Demanding Indemnification By Beneficiary
- Surviving Spouse Right To an Elective Share In Pennsylvania Probate
- Illinois Supreme Court: Marriage to Ward Void Without Guardian Consent and Best Interest Determination
- No Jumping the Line For Florida Creditor Claim Priority
- The Existence Of a Will Does Not Defeat a Texas Heirship Proceeding
- Inventory And Appraisal In New Jersey Probate
- Bankruptcy Court Draws Distinction Between Florida Homestead Exemptions
- Lease Does Not Sever Joint Tenancy With Right Of Survivorship Under New York Law
- What Happens In New Jersey When a Child Is Born Or Adopted After The Execution Of a Will?
- Does Divorce Invalidate a Will In Pennsylvania?
- Florida Appeals Court Says No Fees and Costs Reimbursement To Personal Representative From Sale Of Homestead Property
- Louisiana Supreme Court: An Initial Child Support Claim Cannot Be Brought After Father’s Death
- The Pennsylvania Estate Inventory
- What Is the Deadline To Object To an Election To Take an Elective Share Under Florida Law?
- Broad Discovery Triggers In Terrorem Clause In New York Trust Proceeding
- Mississippi Supreme Court: How Do You Prove Due Execution Of a Will When the Witnesses Are Dead?
- What Are The Different Types Of Probate Proceedings In Nevada?
- Does Divorce Invalidate a Will In Georgia?
- Who Can Create a Revocable Trust In Virginia?
- Texas Supreme Court: Technical Defect In Service On Ward Does Not Deprive Probate Court Of Personal Jurisdiction In Guardianship Action
- Oklahoma Supreme Court: Sufficient Evidence Of Survivorship In Simultaneous Death Case
- New York Surrogate’s Court Addresses Adequacy Of Witness Affidavit With Remote Execution of Wills
- California Court Upholds Elder Abuse Restraining Order Except Firearms Prohibition
- How Do You Probate a Will In New Jersey?
- Florida Appellate Court Determines That Operating Agreement Of Limited Liability Company Does Not Nullify Specific Bequest In Will
- No Attorney’s Fees Based on Inequitable Conduct Doctrine In Florida Will Contest Without Due Process Of Law
- Kentucky Supreme Court Determines Surviving Spouse Fraudulently Deprived Of Dower Right
- Ohio Changes To Rules Applicable To Guardianships Go Into Effect On July 1, 2022
- No Contest Clauses In Georgia Wills and Trusts
- Filing the Final Account In Ohio Probate
- Can You Contest a Will In Texas On the Grounds Of Insane Delusion?
- Notary Who Notarized Forged Deed Caused Damages To Florida Estate
- Is Common-Law Marriage Recognized In South Carolina?
- Access to Decedent’s Digital Assets In New York
- What Are the Different Types Of Florida Probate Proceedings?
- Mississippi Supreme Court: No Liability For Bank That Reasonably Relied On Apparent Authority Of Attorney Over Conservatorship
- What Are the Duties Of an Ohio Estate Executor or Administrator?
- Rhode Island Supreme Court: Notary Signature Counts As Subscribing Witness to Will
- Mansion House Rights In Ohio Probate
- Oklahoma Supreme Court: Transfer Of Property By Trust Fiduciary Exempt From Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act
- No Money Damages In Florida Partition Action
- How Do You Close an Estate In Pennsylvania?
- Texas Court Upholds Jury Finding Of Invalid Will and Civil Theft Committed By Neighbor
- What Are the Duties Of a Personal Representative In Pennsylvania?
- How Do You Remove an Estate Executor In Oklahoma?
- How Does Divorce Impact a New Jersey Estate Plan?
- California Medicaid Medi-Cal Benefits Must Be Paid From Revocable Trust Prior To Distribution To Trust Beneficiaries
- Who Can Serve As Personal Representative In Maryland?
- North Dakota Supreme Court: Holographic Will Not Valid When Material Portions Not Proven To Be In Decedent’s Handwriting
- Florida Surviving Spouse Did Not Waive Spousal Rights In Marital Settlement Agreement
- Who Can Serve as Personal Representative Of a Missouri Estate?
- Can You Admit a Copy Of a Will To Probate In Georgia?
- Massachusetts Supreme Court: Claims For Intentional Interference With an Expectancy and Unjust Enrichment Not a Trust Contest Subject To One-Year Statute Of Limitation
- Who Can Serve As Personal Representative Of an Estate In Indiana?
- New York Court Declares Marriage To Incapacitated Spouse Void Ab Initio
- Florida Appellate Court Reverses Order Upholding Invalid Devise Of Homestead In Decedent’s Will
- Who Can Serve As Personal Representative Of a Tennessee Estate?
- Alleged Incapacitated Person Has Right To Substitute Counsel Until Incapacity Is Determined Under Florida Guardianship Code
- Financial Elder Abuse Claim Brought In Individual Capacity For Actions Taken As Personal Representative Survives In California Appellate Court
- Does a Revocable Trust Become Irrevocable Under Oklahoma Law Once One Of the Settlors Passes Away?
- Alabama Supreme Court: Failure to Record Marriage Document Before Death Does Not Invalidate Marriage
- Who Can Be Personal Representative In Massachusetts?
- Texas Court Reverses Removal Of Independent Executor Accused Of Gross Misconduct With Multiple Party Account
- New York Court: No Prima Facie Entitlement to Admit Copy of Lost Will To Probate
- Florida Appellate Court: Surviving Spouse Had Standing To Challenge Payment Of Expenses Even Though She Had Received Full Distribution From Estate
- Who Can Serve As Personal Representative Of an Arizona Estate?
- Should You Appeal a Florida Probate Order Because You Disagree With the Court’s Factual Findings?
- Florida Appellate Court: Caveat In Probate Proceeding Did Not Constitute a Counterclaim To Survive Voluntary Dismissal
- Iowa Court Recognizes Illegitimate Child As Legal Heir In Probate
- Who Can Serve As Personal Representative Washington State?
- Georgia Probate Shortcuts For Small Or Simple Estates
- Ohio Appellate Court: Deed Invalid When Decedent Did Not Authorize Another To Sign
- Who Can Serve As Personal Representative In Virginia?
- Spousal and Family Allowance In Oklahoma Probate
- New York Court Reverses Order Removing Guardian For Failure To Hold Evidentiary Hearing
- Petitioner’s Brief in Vaccine Mandate Case
- Florida Appellate Court: Award Of Interim Attorneys Fees For Services To Estate Must Be Supported By Evidence
- Who Can Serve As Personal Representative In Michigan?
- Who Has Standing To Bring Legal Malpractice Claim Against Attorney For Prior Trustee and Estate Personal Representative Under Texas Law?
- Undue Influence In Georgia Will Contests
- Florida Appellate Court: Failure To Establish Paternity Within Statute Of Limitations = No Standing To Challenge Validity Of Trust
- What Is a Spousal Elective Share In Oklahoma?
- Do a Florida Personal Representative’s Powers Relate Back To Acts Prior To Appointment?
- New York Court Conducts In Depth Analysis Of Lack of Testamentary Capacity Will Contest
- Timely Petition For Extension Of Time Tolls Deadline To File Election To Take Elective Share In Florida
- Power to Award Appellate Attorney’s Fees For Services Rendered To an Estate Belongs Exclusively To Florida Probate Court
- Indiana Supreme Court: Probate Code’s Bar Against Restraints On Marriage Does Not Apply To Trusts Or Gifts To Children
- Florida Appellate Court Reviews Tenancy By the Entireties Real Property Ownership In Summary Probate Administration Dispute
- Small Estates In West Virginia: July 2021 Update
- How Do You Speed Up Probate In California?
- Guide To Creditor Claims In New Jersey Estates
- Georgia Supreme Court: Guardian Has Authority To Enter Into Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreement On Ward’s Behalf
- Can a Beneficiary Witness a Will In Oklahoma?
- How Long Does Probate Take In New York?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Wyoming?
- The Power of Revocation Includes the Power of Modification Under California Law – Unless the Trust Provides Otherwise
- How To Remove an Estate Executor In Texas
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Vermont?
- When Does The New York Surrogate’s Court Have Personal Jurisdiction Over a Trustee?
- Can an Estate Sue To Enforce a Contractual Waiver By a Former Spouse After Distribution Of ERISA-Governed 401(k) Proceeds?
- Does Divorce Revoke a Will In Oklahoma?
- How To Speed Up Probate Administration In Florida
- When Is Someone “Unsuitable” To Serve As Independent Executor Of a Texas Estate?
- Florida Court Determines Children Are Intended Beneficiaries In Trust Construction Dispute
- Who Can Serve As a Personal Representative In Georgia?
- Decedent’s Children Hit a Wall In California Probate Court: Undue Influence Presumption Applied To Declare Home Community Property
- Brother Had Standing Under Texas Slayer Statute To Seek Declaration Regarding Rights To Insurance Proceeds
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In South Dakota?
- Who Has Priority To Be Appointed as Administrator of a New Jersey Estate?
- Dealing With Probate Creditor Claims In Georgia
- Deadline To File Surviving Spouse Election Tolled Under New York Covid-19 Executive Order
- Does a Texas Trustee Need To Be Represented By a Licensed Attorney?
- California Appeals Court Offers Textbook Example Of How a Fiduciary Should Not Proceed
- South Dakota Supreme Court – Trust Beneficiaries Lack Standing To Bring Creditor Claim Against Estate
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Rhode Island?
- Florida’s Third District Holds Vicarious Liability Claims Against Estate Time Barred Under Creditor Claim Probate Statutes and Certifies Conflict With the Fourth
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In North Dakota?
- In What Order Are Debts Paid In Oklahoma Probate?
- Texas Appellate Court Addresses Partition and Turnover of Community Property Held By Surviving Spouse
- Conflicting Evidence Of Due Execution and Undue Influence In New York Will Contest
- A Review Of Testamentary Capacity In Florida
- August 2021 Changes To Ohio Probate, Guardianship, and Trust Law
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In New Hampshire?
- Texas Executor Breaches Fiduciary Duties In Making a Non-Pro Rata Distribution Of Assets and Failing To Disclose Material Facts
- Who Can Serve as Personal Representative in North Carolina?
- Are No Contest Clauses In Wills Enforceable In Oklahoma?
- Louisiana Supreme Court Reverses Itself And Abandons Overly Strict Construction Of Standards For Creating Valid Notarial Will
- A Review Of Testamentary Formalities In Florida: How To Make a Valid Will
- How Long Does Probate Take In Oklahoma?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Montana?
- How To Remove an Executor Or Administrator In New Jersey Estates
- Oklahoma Supreme Court Weighs In On Who Controls the Disposition Of a Decedent’s Remains
- What Is A Confidential Relationship In New Jersey Undue Influence Cases?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Maine?
- What Does It Mean To Have Testamentary Capacity In New Jersey?
- California Successor In Interest Affidavit Not A Prerequisite To Filing Suit
- Texas Legislative Update: Rule Against Perpetuities Extended To 300 Years For Trusts September 1, 2021
- Nebraska Supreme Court: $875,000 Charitable Bequest To Nursing Home Did Not Lapse For Failure Of Gift
- Florida Estate Planning Malpractice – Failure to Fund Trust
- How To Default Parties in Florida Probate and Trust Litigation
- Assets Acquired By Estate After a Decedent’s Death Must Pass Under New York’s Intestacy Laws
- How Do You Make a Valid Will in D.C.?
- Who Can Serve As an Executor Or Administrator In Oklahoma Probate?
- Iowa Supreme Court: Tortious Interference With an Inheritance Requires Defendant To Have Knowledge of Plaintiff’s Expectancy Of an Inheritance
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Delaware?
- New York Surrogate’s Court Awards Attorney’s Fees To Trustee and Surcharges Trustee In Same Action
- Can a Small Estate Avoid Probate In Oklahoma?
- Wyoming Supreme Court: Beneficiaries Cannot Intervene In Wrongful Death Action
- What Is The Difference Between Independent and Supervised Administration In Illinois?
- Creditors In Oklahoma Probate
- Are No Contest Clauses Enforceable In Illinois?
- Assets of Spendthrift Trust May Be Reached For Payment of Attorneys Fees and Costs In California Marital Dissolution Proceedings
- Texas Supreme Court: Acceptance of Benefits Under Will Bars Will Contest
- Priority of Payment of Claims In New York Probate
- How Does a Will Proponent Make a Prima Facie Case For Probate In New York?
- Use Of the Texas Citizens Participation Act In Will and Trust Disputes
- Small Estate Affidavits In Illinois
- Florida Court Determines Whether Marital Agreement Provides For Payment of Alimony After Death
- How Do You Revoke a Will In Oklahoma?
- What Order Are Probate Claims Paid In Illinois?
- Partnership Agreement Trumps Will Under Florida and Ohio Law
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Alaska?
- Is an Inheritance Advance Legal?
- What Does It Mean To Have Testamentary Capacity In Oklahoma?
- Michael Jackson Estate Scores Big Tax Court Victory
- Beneficiary’s Estate Has Standing To Demand an Accounting In California Trust Dispute
- Undue Influence In Oklahoma Will Contests
- How Long Does Probate Take In Illinois?
- In Terrorem Clause Not Triggered In Texas For Seeking Reimbursement For Funeral Expenses
- How Do You Contest a Will In Oklahoma?
- No Standing In Florida Probate When Status As Interested Person Is Based On Invalidated Will
- What Does It Mean To Have Testamentary Capacity In Georgia?
- Why Does Probate Take So Long?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Hawaii?
- How Long Does Probate Take In New Jersey?
- Key 2021 Updates To the Georgia Probate Code
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Idaho?
- Who Can File a Caveat In North Carolina?
- How Much Does a Personal Representative Get Paid In Georgia?
- Can You Probate a Lost Will In New Jersey?
- How Do You Prove Undue Influence In a North Carolina Will Contest?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In West Virginia?
- File a New Jersey Caveat With Caution
- Testamentary Capacity In North Carolina
- How Do You Revoke a Will In Georgia?
- Can You Admit a Lost Will To Probate In Illinois?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Nebraska?
- DNA Testing Denied in Charles Manson Estate Litigation
- Proposed Texas Bill Relating To Beneficiary’s Approval Of Trustee’s Accounting 2021
- 5 Takeaways From New York’s Power of Attorney Law Effective June 2021
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Trust Beneficiaries Can Examine Trustee’s Attorney’s Billing Records If Trust Is Paying Fees
- Colorado Probate Code Updated Cost Of Living Adjustments 2021
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In New Mexico?
- How Long Does Probate Take In Pennsylvania?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Kansas?
- Birth Certificate, Will, and Pocket Planner Not Enough To Serve As Acknowledgment Of Paternity In Florida Probate
- First Will Admitted To Probate Under New York Remote Witness and Notarization Law
- How Is Testamentary Capacity Determined In Pennsylvania?
- Texas Appeals Court Affirms Reformation of Unambiguous Texas Will Based On Cut-And-Paste Mistake
- Are No-Contest Clauses Valid In Pennsylvania Wills?
- Oklahoma Supreme Court: Children Not Mentioned In One-Sentence Holographic Will Are Pretermitted Heirs
- No Attorney Fees In a California Conservatorship Proceeding Without Appointment Of Conservator
- Texas 2020 Case Roundup
- In What Order Are Estate Expenses And Obligations Paid In Pennsylvania?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Arkansas?
- South Carolina Supreme Court: Arbitration Agreement Signed By Power of Attorney Unenforceable
- Spring 2021 California Case Roundup
- How Do You Revoke a Will In Pennsylvania?
- Alleged Delusions Did Not Invalidate Trust In Favor Of St. Jude’s For Lack Of Testamentary Capacity
- Creditor Claims In Pennsylvania Probate
- Missouri Supreme Court: No Excusable Neglect For Surviving Spouse Who Disregarded Probate Court’s Orders To Obtain Appointment As Personal Representative
- Who Gets Notice When an Estate Is Opened In Pennsylvania?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Utah?
- How Much Is a Personal Representative Paid In Pennsylvania?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Nevada?
- What Is The Effect of Divorce On Your Illinois Estate Plan?
- Vermont Supreme Court Determines Ownership Of 1979 Cadillac Eldorado In Probate Dispute
- Are No-Contest Clauses Valid In Ohio Wills?
- How Do You Revoke a Will In North Carolina?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Connecticut?
- Virginia Supreme Court: Attorney’s Fees Can Be Awarded In Fraud Suit Without Finding That Fraud Was “Particularly Egregious”
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Oklahoma?
- Iowa Supreme Court: You Can’t Adjudicate Validity Of a Will Before a Testator’s Death
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Oregon?
- New York 2020 Case Roundup
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Kentucky?
- Nebraska Supreme Court: Nonjudicial Settlement Agreement Violated Material Purpose Of Trust By Ignoring Spendthrift Provision
- Forced Heirship in New York
- How Do You Make a Valid Will and Testament In Louisiana?
- California Appeals Court Upholds Double Damages In Elder Financial Abuse Case
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Iowa?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In South Carolina?
- The Mysteries of the Britney Spears Conservatorship
- Fiduciary Access To Digital Assets In Ohio
- Summary Judgment In New York Dispute Over Beneficiary Designation
- Two Louisiana Supreme Court Cases Examine When Attestation Clauses In A Notarial Will Substantially Comply With The Law, and When They Don’t
- Texas Appeals Court Addresses Ripeness For Determination of Trust Beneficiaries Of Class Gift
- What Happens to Back Child Support if the Parent Dies
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Minnesota?
- Florida Appellate Court Reviews Undue Influence Shifting Burdens Of Proof
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Wisconsin?
- Kansas Supreme Court: “Any Person” Means What It Says In Double Penalty Probate Statute For Conversion Of Decedent’s Property
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Colorado?
- Permissible Appointees v. Trust Beneficiaries In Florida
- California Appeals Court: Charities Who Ignored Notices Forfeited Rights As Potential Beneficiaries of Trust
- Will You Owe Tax on Your Gamestop Gains?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Maryland?
- New Hampshire Supreme Court Reverses Probate Court Finding That Son Was Not Pretermitted Heir
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Missouri?
- Transfer of Trust Real Property In California: Equitable Title Controls For Property Tax Purposes
- Deadlines and Timelines In New Jersey Probate
- 2020 California Case Roundup
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Mississippi?
- “Spouse” In Texas Irrevocable Trust Means Spouse At Time Trust Created
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Indiana?
- Pennsylvania Uniform Fiduciary Access To Digital Assets Act – January 2021
- Nebraska Supreme Court Construes Will: Intent To Disinherit Heir Must Be Express Or Necessarily Implied In Will
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Tennessee?
- California Homestead Exemption Law Update 2021
- 2020 Florida Case Roundup
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Massachusetts?
- Standing In Texas Guardianship Turns On Discrete Issues In Particular Phase Of Proceeding
- Summary Judgment Granted In New York Contested Probate
- Nevada Supreme Court: Include All Trust Documents To Trigger 120-Day Trust Challenge Deadline
- Tortious Interference With an Expectancy Of Inheritance In Illinois
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Arizona?
- California Court Of Appeals Reverses Dismissal Of Fraudulent Transfer Action
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Washington?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Virginia?
- How Do You Revoke a Will In New Jersey?
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Personal Representative’s Power To Pay Claims Extinguished After Three Years
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Pennsylvania?
- Equitable Adoption In Texas Probate
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Michigan?
- Intentional Interference With an Expectancy Of Inheritance In Ohio
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In North Carolina?
- Fraud And Forgery As Grounds To Invalidate Will In Illinois
- How Much Commission Does a New Jersey Estate Executor Get Paid?
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court: Settlor Must Prove Elements Of Common Law Fraud to Void Irrevocable Trust Based On Fraudulent Inducement
- Testamentary Capacity In Illinois Will Contests
- Can a Beneficiary Witness a Will In Georgia?
- How Do You Revoke a Will In Illinois?
- A California Trust Deed, a Power Of Sale, and Community Property
- Support Allowance In Ohio Probate
- Who Has Standing To Bring a Will Contest In Illinois?
- Undue Influence In New Jersey Will Contests
- Ohio Supreme Court: Interest Under Will Eliminated If Beneficiary Witness Is Necessary To Establish Validity Of Will
- Can a Beneficiary Witness a Will In New Jersey?
- Who Can Serve As Executor Or Administrator In Illinois Probate?
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In New Jersey?
- How To Substitute a Party After Death In New York
- Florida Court Places Burden Of Proof On Wrong Party To Prove Deed Invalid
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Georgia?
- Oklahoma Supreme Court: Prioritized Order For Probate Venue Exists In Oklahoma
- Virginia Supreme Court: The Term “Fair Market Value” In Codicil Provides No Certainty As To Price
- How Do You Make a Valid Will In Illinois?
- Ancillary Probate In Pennsylvania
- Can the Deadline To File For Elective Share In New York Be Extended?
- Pretermitted Heirs In Ohio Probate
- Can You Probate A Lost Will In Texas?
- Nevada Supreme Court: Creditor Of Settlor May Bring Claim Against Settlor’s Trust
- How Do You Open an Estate In Pennsylvania?
- Substantial Evidence Required In California LPS Conservatorships
- Former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Dies Intestate With Reported Net Worth Of $840 Million
- Who Are Next of Kin In Rhode Island?
- Alabama Supreme Court: How To Prove Proper Execution Of a Will
- Who Are Next of Kin In Wyoming?
- Deadlines And Timelines In Illinois Probate
- Who Can Make a Will In Alabama?
- Who Are Next Of Kin In South Dakota?
- Who Is Entitled To Serve As Executor In Pennsylvania Probate?
- Who Are Next Of Kin In North Dakota?
- What Are the Different Types Of Estate Proceedings In Pennsylvania?
- Who Can Create a Revocable Trust In Maryland?
- Who Are Next Of Kin In New Hampshire?
- Deadlines And Timelines In Pennsylvania Probate
- Inventory And Appraisal In Ohio Probate
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Montana?
- How to Become a Florida Resident
- Who Has Priority Of Appointment As A Fiduciary In Ohio Probate?
- Should You Get a Probate Advance?
- What Authority Does a New York Executor Have Before Letters Are Issued?
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Washington DC?
- Colorado Supreme Court: Personal Representative Does Not Have An Absolute Right To Decedent’s Legal Files
- When Is Someone Unfit To Serve As A Fiduciary In New York Probate?
- Advancement On an Inheritance In Ohio Probate
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Delaware?
- Deadlines And Timelines In North Carolina Probate
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Alaska?
- Living Probate In North Carolina
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Hawaii?
- Can You Administer The Estate Of a Missing Person In California?
- Texas Trust Action Addresses Standing, In Terrorem Clauses, And Basic Trust Interpretation
- Wisconsin Hospitalized And Quarantined Electors Can Use Agent To Help Vote
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Idaho?
- What Are The Powers Of a Fiduciary In New York?
- In What Order Are Debts Paid In Ohio Probate?
- The Alabama Supreme Court On Proving The Existence and Terms Of an Oral Trust
- Who Are Next Of Kin In West Virginia?
- Can You Vote With A Power of Attorney?
- Lost Wills In Ohio Probate
- Make Sure You Have Personal Jurisdiction In Texas Guardianship Proceedings
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Nebraska?
- A Per Stirpes Primer From The Connecticut Supreme Court
- Who Are Next Of Kin In New Mexico?
- Black Panther Star Chadwick Boseman Died Without A Will
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Kansas?
- Ohio’s Designated Heir Statute
- Who Are Next Of Kin In Mississippi?
- Parties Bound By Agreement In Texas Trust Dispute
- Waiver of Spousal Rights In California Probate
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- New York’s Uniform Partition Of Heirs Property Act Does Not Apply Retroactively
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- Evidence Required to Determine Possession of Property During Florida Probate
- Entitlement to Attorney’s Fees in Trust Contest Must Be Properly Plead
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- Ward With Emergency Temporary Guardian Lacks Legal Capacity to Execute Trust
- Trustee Surcharged $5.3 million for Breach of Trust
- Trustee of Revocable Trust Sued for Failure to Follow Written Instructions
- Trustee in Contempt of Court For Failure to Follow Orders of Florida Probate Court?
- Florida Probate Creditor Claim Not E-Filed Rejected as Untimely
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- Federal Interpleader Case Involving Slayer Statute Dismissed in Colorado
- Heir Hunter Fee Agreement Violates Public Policy As Illegal Practice Of Law
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- Settlement Agreement From Helicopter Crash Set Aside Where One Attorney Represented All Victims
- Challenged Trust and Power of Attorney Do Not Offer Less Restrictive Alternative to Guardianship
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- Bank May be Liable for Failure to Stop Elder Abuse
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- Bad Faith Claim Against Decedent’s Insurer Not Subject To Creditor Claim Period
- Attorney for Trust Owes No Fiduciary Duty to Beneficiaries
- Attorney Fees Denied Where Alleged Incapacitated Person Dies Before Adjudication of Incapacity
- Attorney Fees Denied in Lost Will Case
- Attorney Fee Computed Under Probate Code Schedule = Breach of Fiduciary Duty
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- Approval of Settlements for Minors Wards and Guardians
- Appointment of Florida Public Guardian When Next of Kin Willing To Serve
- Adversarial Florida Probate Proceedings Are Governed by the Rules of Civil Procedure
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- Surviving Spouse Rights Georgia
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- Forum Non Conveniens in Federal Probate Litigation
- Federal Court Dismisses Trust Dispute With Pending State Court Trust Dispute
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- Missing Trust Document? No Problem Under Florida Trust Law
- The Rights of Caveators Must Be Determined Before Admitting Will to Probate
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