I get called all the time asking what happens if there is not Will when someone dies? The Florida Bar states: “Someone who dies without a valid will is “intestate.” Even if the decedent dies intestate, the probate assets are...
Karin Klein, a writer for the LA Times wrote the following interested article about Robin Williams’ Will. “What does the legal spat between Robin Williams’ widow and his children show? Is it the product of a gold-digging wife of only a few...
I saw this article and wanted to repost it for fun! “Who got the money? Who had the biggest family feuds? The mistakes that were made — and what we can learn from them. Two legal experts in estate planning...
The Florida Bar states: “Probate is a court-supervised process for identifying and gathering the assets of a deceased person (decedent), paying the decedent’s debts, and distributing the decedent’s assets to his or her beneficiaries. In general, the decedent’s assets are...
The Florida Bar states “Probate is a court-supervised process for identifying and gathering the assets of a deceased person (decedent), paying the decedent’s debts, and distributing the decedent’s assets to his or her beneficiaries. In general, the decedent’s assets are...
The Florida Bar states: “The decedent’s surviving spouse and children may be entitled to receive probate assets from the decedent’s probate estate, even if the decedent’s will gives them nothing. Florida law protects the decedent’s surviving spouse and certain surviving...
Almost every day I have clients as me what probate means. The Florida bar states: “Probate is a court-supervised process for identifying and gathering the assets of a deceased person (decedent), paying the decedent’s debts, and distributing the decedent’s assets...
The Florida Bar states: “The decedent’s surviving spouse and children may be entitled to receive probate assets from the decedent’s probate estate, even if the decedent’s will gives them nothing. Florida law protects the decedent’s surviving spouse and certain surviving...
The Florida Bar states, “A revocable trust avoids probate by effecting the transfer of assets during your lifetime to the trustee. This avoids the need to use the probate process to make the transfer after your death. The trustee has...
The Florida Bar states: “Depending upon the facts of the situation, any of the following may have a role to play in the probate administration of the decedent’s estate: Clerk of the circuit court in the county in which the...
