Since the case is being brought in probate court, he is not guaranteed a court-appointed lawyer, according to Robert Stein, a veteran New Hampshire attorney who specializes in probate law.
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And one amusing thing ... probate was opened in Nevada.
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You don't often see news trucks parked outside probate court.
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In 2012, he became the county's first black probate judge.
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The agreement must still be approved by a probate court.
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She also kept checking on the place in probate court.
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Candidate touts role as first black probate judge Reed was elected in 2012 as a probate judge in Montgomery County, becoming the first African-American and youngest person to do so, his website says.
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Prince's family will find this probate experience to be a nightmare.
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Both filed documents in Prince's probate claiming they are rightful heirs.
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The probate judge just about begged him to get an attorney.
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He also told a probate judge that Young required a guardian.
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The most common way to avoid probate is through a trust.
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The probate process has its own set of rules and procedures in Minnesota, as in most states, which will be tested in this -- sure to be one of the most complex and unusual probate cases ever.
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Wills normally become a matter of public record upon probate, but a trust may often provide greater confidentiality, as they are often used to avoid probate, added certified financial planner P. Jeffrey Christakos of Westfield Wealth Management.
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The law has always favored finality in proceedings; probate is no different.
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Small claims, divorce and probate applications began to be digitised this year.
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Bennett has asked a Florida probate court to declare his wife deceased.
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Probate court handles the assets and debts from a person who has died.
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Probate is a legal process of settling an estate after a person dies.
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McDermott, meanwhile, brought in Gibson Dunn as its counsel in Dick's probate case.
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Moore told the probate judges that the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v.
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She said she expects a hearing before a probate judge in early March.
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Some probate cases are very cut-and-dry and wrap up really quickly.
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And named beneficiaries of a trust do not have to go through probate.
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A trust fund also has the ability to avoid the tedious probate process.
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"She was our most famous citizen," said Greg Norris, probate judge in Monroe County.
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His attorney submitted the estimated value this week to the probate in L.A. County.
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The IRS filed the claim this month in Oakland County Probate Court in Pontiac.
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That comes from a complaint Dauman filed today in family probate court in Massachusetts.
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That changed Tuesday with the election of Steven Reed, a Montgomery County probate judge.
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The cost differential of drafting a will versus going through probate can be staggering.
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However, Duane was not named in the original probate case filed by Tyka Nelson.
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According to the court records, Chris was served a copy of the probate petition.
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A probate-court judge, taking Mooney to be Henry's closest relative, approved the conservatorship.
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Martin Howrylak and Dorene Allen, a judge who heads the Michigan Probate Judges Association.
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The will bequeaths everything to a trust that probate documents indicate was created on Aug.
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Prince's relatives, meanwhile, face the expensive and time-consuming process of a state-ordered probate.
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It may span both probate court in Oklahoma and potentially also a separate corporate proceeding.
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He shares the financial oversight with Mr. Wallet, who specializes in conservatorships and probate law.
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The probate court will decide how that money is split among the brothers, he said.
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You say you've waited out the probate period during which a will can be contested.
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In Florida, Kansas and California, for example, the probate process is often long and costly.
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But a person's body isn't an issue for a probate court, but for civil court.
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Two days later, a Los Angeles probate judge will consider the issue of the estate.
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It stands as a completely separate entity from your will and is sheltered from probate.
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Another plus: Trusts can minimize estate taxes and keep your estate out of probate court.
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An initial hearing in a potential probate trial between the siblings is scheduled for May.
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Lawyers for Darcell Johnston filed legal docs in Prince's probate case saying she's a beneficiary.
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The executor or administrator of his estate would have to petition a probate court to collect the debt on behalf of the decedent to be distributed to Jobs' beneficiaries, according to Timothy Gray, director of services at New Jersey Executor and Probate Resource Center.
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Six siblings, including half siblings, have already filed papers in court to begin the probate process.
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A probate hearing on Monday concluded with the appointment of a special administrator but no will.
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Additionally, the process of administering wills, dubbed probate, is handled on a state-by-state basis.
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Jackson's estate noted that the "Thriller" singer's estate remains in probate and has not yet closed.
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" And with six siblings involved, he says, "I'd expect the [probate] to last quite some time.
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Probate documents confirm the funds were distributed as part of a wrongful death and survival claim.
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And in a recent victory for the center, a probate court judge in Bristol County, Mass.
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Manson's last home was Spahn Ranch in Los Angeles, so probate matters stay in Los Angeles.
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In 2015, he was the first probate judge in Alabama to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
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In a probate document, they found Annie's name: Four interviewees described her as Louis's half sister.
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Most likely, John created a trust with assets that don't have to go through probate court.
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In the case of Rafal's client, for instance, if the wife had not been listed as a beneficiary on her husband's retirement and stock accounts, those assets would have first gone into probate and she would have had no claim to them until probate was completed.
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He left his entire estate to his parents, according to a court probate obtained by The Blast.
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One probate judge, Steven Reed in Montgomery, Alabama, said his office would not heed the administrative order.
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Judge David King scheduled a 10-day trial in probate court for Nathan Carman, starting in 2019.
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The process, called probate, is costly, time-consuming and public - all things most people like to avoid.
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"Going through a probate process like Prince's estate opens everything up to the public," Ms. Cruz said.
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"I'm encouraging people more often not to worry about creating trusts just to avoid probate," he said.
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Immediately after the ruling, Moore told probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Talinda Bennington submitted an appraisal detailing some of Chester's assets to the probate court overseeing his estate.
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"That way, it won't get stuck in a probate procedure if something were to happen," he said.
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A probate judge has assigned the president-elect nominee of the American Bar Association to the task.
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"People take days off from work to head to probate, which costs time and money," he said.
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Reed was also the first African-American elected the county's probate judge in 2012, the Advertiser said.
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Steven Reed, a county probate judge who is black, defeated David Woods, a white businessman, Reuters reported.
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He is the Co-Author of the Arizona Estate Planning and Probate Handbook, published by Thomson Reuters.
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And he's essentially accused of murder in probate court, which is typically the realm of wills and estates.
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In 2010, a probate court in Miami declared Mr. López to be one of Mr. López Vilaboy's heirs.
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Records from the ongoing probate case also revealed Prince stockpiled cash and 67 gold bars, while eschewing stocks.
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But not all of a person's assets necessarily are counted as part of an estate for probate purposes.
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Dick ended up taking his dispute with Rick to probate court, where the fateful Blaskey email first surfaced.
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Although most of Alabama's probate judges ignored his manoeuvre, it "caused a great deal of confusion", says one.
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" It also found Moore's use of case law in the order to probate judges "incomplete, misleading, and manipulative.
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Women can also inquire about their marital status through a website and view details of any probate certificates.
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For my patient's guardian to discontinue unwanted life-sustaining therapies, she had to petition a probate court judge.
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The Estate wants to unload the currency STAT ... faster than the normal course of action in probate court.
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" That probate office, among the busiest in Alabama, was involved in the litigation that last year prompted a federal judge to strike down the state's marriage restrictions as unconstitutional and, ultimately, issue an injunction forbidding probate judges "from enforcing the Alabama laws which prohibit or fail to recognize same-sex marriage.
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But it all began in February 2015, when Moore ordered probate judges to not grant same-sex marriage licenses.
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It was the site of a gruesome mass murder in 1974 that kept the property tied up in probate.
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He later disputed a federal court order that directed all probate judges to cease enforcement of Alabama's marriage ban.
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The process of paying off all your debt and then distributing the remaining assets to heirs is called probate.
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Victor and Irina Yelchin filed probate papers in Los Angeles on July 29, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.
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John's friend, Bernard Dowling, filed legal docs in Cook County, Illinois to open a probate case for his estate.
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In Monday's ruling, the court sent the case back to the probate court for further proceedings on that question.
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Though she didn't write much about herself, surviving census and probate records etch out the contours of her movements.
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It acknowledged then, too, that Mr. Cruz "may be a beneficiary in probate matters" related to two separate estates.
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The groom's father retired as the first justice of the Bristol County Probate and Family Court in Taunton, Mass.
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And high-profile probate proceedings can drag on for years and lead to infighting among families, lawyers and others.
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Here are some tips: ■ Learn the local laws, as probate and real estate rules vary from state to state.
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The money will not be subject to the probate process, though it may be accessible to creditor claims. 5.
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A commissioner from Alabama, Jefferson County Probate Judge Alan L. King also sent a letter about the commission's openness.
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Family fight A probate hearing in the looming battle over Prince's estate is planned for today in a Minneapolis court.
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Irina and Victor Yelchin filed probate docs in L.A. County on Monday which list the 27-year-old actor's assets.
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In a typical probate case there are executors' fees, accounting fees, court fees and costs for appraisals and surety bonds.
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For my 29th birthday, I bought myself a first and middle name change at my local probate court in Tennessee.
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Tommy Ragland, a probate judge in Madison County, said he was waiting for his county attorney to read Moore's directive.
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Lilly filed a claim with Chris' estate in the probate cases, asking for money to cover college and other expenses.
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A hearing on the motion to dismiss is scheduled for June 30 in Probate and Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts.
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So it was with Loring, who was both a judge of the Massachusetts Probate Court and a United States Commissioner.
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A probate hearing in the case was scheduled for May 2, according to state court documents and a court spokesman.
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Prince has a biological son who is not mentioned in the probate case ... at least according to the alleged son.
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An Alabama probate judge granted Magers's attorney's request to also represent the unborn fetus, designated "Baby Roe" in court filings.
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It's possible there could be additional money in trusts not reflected in this probate case ... which Billie could also collect.
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They eliminated marriage licenses, so that probate judges opposed to same-sex marriage would not have to sign marriage certificates.
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Voters chose Mr. Reed, a probate judge, to lead a majority-black city almost 200 years after it was incorporated.
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The groom's father retired as a tax and probate lawyer and partner in Green & Cross, a law firm in Nashville.
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We don't know who gets what in the trust ... because trust documents don't have to be filed in probate court.
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The attorney for Sharon, Norrine and John Nelson blew the whistle on Tidal with the probate judge in Prince's case.
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Keep in mind, the probate court process can be time-consuming and expensive, which ultimately just chips away at your estate.
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As for time, probate proceedings normally take up to a year and a half, but that's only if there's no litigation.
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But because Prince died without a will, a battle for an estate of inestimable value will play out in probate court.
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At a hearing on Friday in Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts, Judge George Phelan set a Sept.
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On January 6th he instructed Alabama's probate judges, responsible for issuing marriage licences, not to grant them to same-sex couples.
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If no beneficiary is listed on those assets or the beneficiary has already passed away, the assets automatically go into probate.
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Trusts can also keep your estate out of probate court — which can be expensive and time consuming — and minimize estate taxes.
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If she had made a will, we — her beneficiaries — in all likelihood would not have had to go through probate court.
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If Prince didn't have a will in place, his siblings could become beneficiaries of his estate, according to Minnesota probate code.
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Without pay on death or a cosignatory, the account may be frozen, and have to be settled and released through probate.
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Duane -- who was Prince's bodyguard for a while -- was omitted from the list of siblings when Tyka Nelson began probate proceedings.
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For instance, the beneficiaries listed on retirement accounts, insurance policies and annuities receive the money directly without it going through probate.
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Hendon's ruling says that in addition to receiving custody, the grandparents can petition to change the child's name in probate court.
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John's mom, Shelia Ward, filed his will in probate court last Friday, leaving all of his property to Justice, his firstborn.
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On Monday morning, Prince's family arrived at a probate hearing to determine what happens to everything that the music icon left behind.
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The family has a probate hearing in a Minneapolis court Monday to begin sorting out what will happen to the musician's estate.
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To ensure fair distribution of her holdings and to keep the estate out of probate, the client set up a living trust.
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A status hearing for the boy will be held on April 10 at the St. Joseph County Probate Court, according to prosecutors.
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The retail and commercial bank, owned by Spain's Banco Santander, also had "serious failings" in its probate and bereavement process, FCA said.
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These are just some of the issues the legal system will confront during the probate process -- believe me, it's just the beginning.
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A probate court still needs to decide whether Yahoo can refuse under its terms of service to provide access to the emails.
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But one pressing query may get some answers Thursday when a probate judge could decide the future of gunman Stephen Paddock's finances.
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When someone dies without a will, the state chooses guardians for minor children and a probate court decides who inherits the assets.
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So, many people seek ways to avoid probate, such as setting up trusts or transferring bank accounts to children while still living.
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He is now the volunteer executive director of Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship, lobbying legislatures and counseling families engulfed in guardian disputes.
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The probate hearing occurred as the parents were in court in another building, where a judge is weighing whether they will stand trial.
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She later filed an objection to her grandfather's probate filing and his request to become the executor of Kristoff's estate, The Blast reported.
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Wills and probate inventories provide clues to what people owned and considered their most valuable possessions (beds were often first on the list).
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You cannot register if a probate court has declared you incompetent or you have been permanently denied voting rights over election law violations.
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" Staver said Moore's administrative order directing probate judges to enforce the state ban on same-sex marriage "did not change the status quo.
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"Confusion and uncertainty exist among the probate judges of this state as to the effect of Obergefell on the 'existing orders,'" he wrote.
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Rose filed Nick's death certificate in probate court ... and according to the docs his cause of death was heart disease and blood pressure.
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Some probate judges in Alabama are seeing right through Judge Moore's disingenuous attempt to mask his loathing for gay rights in judicial procedure.
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After a weekend of caustic accusations, Mr. Dauman and Mr. Abrams filed a lawsuit Monday morning in the probate court in Canton, Mass.
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But he was removed again in 22006 after telling probate judges not to follow the US Supreme Court's ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.
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This is the person who will distribute the property, pay any remaining bills and debts, and handle probate (transferring the titling of assets).
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More painfully, her white relatives came from Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas to tell a probate court judge that Taylor was a liar.
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The attorney filed documents, obtained by TMZ, with Prince's probate ... saying his former client, Duane Nelson, Sr. has a granddaughter somewhere in Minnesota.
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Remember, it's possible Juice WRLD is actually worth a lot more cause there could be assets in trusts outside of the probate estate.
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Judge Jennifer Callaghan of the Oakland County Probate Court chose Mr. Turner, a longtime friend of the Queen of Soul based in Detroit.
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Lawyers for Ms. Franklin's eldest son, Clarence Franklin, had asked the court to appoint Andrew Mayoras, a Detroit-area probate attorney, as executor.
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Remember, though, any asset passing through the bounds of your will is subject to probate and the snags that can come with it.
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If you pass away, the will goes through a process known as probate where a judge approves that everything went according to plan.
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During the court fight, both Freeman and a probate attorney talked about Manson's body being kept "on ice" by the Kern County Coroner.
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"I've seen entrepreneurs die and have their businesses go through probate," said Leon LaBrecque, a CFP with Sequoia Financial Group in Troy, Michigan.
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Keep in mind, the probate court process can prove to be time-consuming and expensive, which ultimately just chips away at your estate.
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Her four sons filed a document with the Oakland County Probate Court in Michigan that lists them as interested parties in Franklin's estate.
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The type of conservatorship Britney has -- through the probate court -- does not allow a conservator to force someone into a mental health facility.
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Mac created a trust -- something lots of people do to avoid going through probate -- and the trust documents were not filed with the court.
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On Wednesday, The Blast reported that the judge in Spears's conservatorship ordered a probate court investigator to look into Spears's case, including her team.
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But the new will leaves nothing to Mark Epstein — instead, it bequeaths everything to a trust that probate documents indicate was created on Aug.
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The Prince heirs will be watching the clock closely: Minnesota law bars someone from trying to probate a newly discovered will after three years.
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Maybe these things appear in probate court from time to time, but this case could see this court operating outside of its normal capacity.
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Of the 12 members of the commission, five are Democrats, including Alabama probate judge Alan King and New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner.
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Moore's administrative order to probate judges was issued in January -- seven months after a landmark Supreme Court ruling legalized gay and lesbian nuptials nationwide.
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He then disputed a federal court order that was issued months later that directed all probate judges to cease enforcement of Alabama's marriage ban.
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The probate court has not identified an executor, and estimates of Prince's net worth and of the value of his estate have varied widely.
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In her handwritten 2001 will, filed in probate court in the Bahamas, Clark allegedly bequeathed $1 million to her longtime doorman, William Courtney, 62.
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The Mobile County probate court said at the time that it would stop issuing marriage licenses to anyone, gay or straight, until further notice.
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This meant my dad had to go through probate to gain access to that bank account, the official process of proving a will's validity.
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But at least a couple of county probate judges stopped issuing marriage licenses altogether as a way to comply with the conflicting court rulings.
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The court plans to only hear emergency matters in Civil, Family Court, Probate and Tax Divisions and Auditor Master, with "all other matters" continuing.
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The sister, Tyka Nelson, asked that a special administrator be appointed to handle Prince's affairs and that she be appointed to probate his estate.
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Those agreements allow for the funds in those accounts to transfer to beneficiaries and bypass probate, whereby the validity of a will is established.
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Remember, though, any asset passing through the bounds of your will is subject to probate and the potential snags that can come with that.
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The problem with a will alone is that it ensures probate, which is a public, expensive court process that gathers and distributes your assets.
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Incorrect titling could lead to assets falling outside of the trust, going to probate or being distributed in a manner that's contrary to your wishes.
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In January, shortly after owner Rudy Enriquez died childless, leaving the house in probate, photographer Alexis Vaughn was lucky enough to take her camera inside.
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The Chicago Tribune reports 300 pages of fresh genealogical research were filed Monday in Cook County Probate Court, including records from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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"If I told you, you'd fall off your chair," adds Messianu, who has seen probate costs balloon past $50,000 for an estate of $1 million.
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The Alabama Supreme Court, meanwhile, said that the state's law outlawing same-sex marriage was indeed constitutional and ordered probate judges to carry it out.
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In 2016, three years after being re-elected to the same job, Moore was suspended after ordering probate judges not to recognize same-sex marriages.
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That means that if my mother had died back then, we could have been awarded to my father after her estate had gone through probate.
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The Etowah County probate office reported that Horton had received 28503,22019 votes, compared to Entrekin's 6,742 with 34 of the county's 35 ballot boxes recording.
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Our sources say Tanisha has tentatively decided to ask the probate judge to continue the hearing so she can get clarity on the custody case.
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Prince's sister Tyka has filed legal docs to open a probate case ... and she says as far as she can tell he left no will.
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Years ago as a young attorney, I spent many hours in Judge Sullivan's courtroom at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Probate Division.
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Michael Channels tells us he filed the 2002 doc Tuesday in probate court, even though he had 30 days to do so after Manson's Nov.
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Mr. Reed, a probate judge, captured about 20133 percent of the vote in the nonpartisan runoff election, according to unofficial results released by the city.
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In a ruling in Connecticut probate court, a judge awarded the bulk of the disputed book collection to the Sendak estate, not to the museum.
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A trust fund shelters a person&aposs assets from probate and allows them to choose how and when their assets are distributed to their heirs.
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Freeman, Brunner, Channels and Matthew Robert Lentz, who also claims to be Manson's son, all head to probate court in Los Angeles again on Friday.
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Her four sons on Tuesday filed a document with the Oakland County Probate Court in Michigan that lists themselves as interested parties in Franklin's estate.
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Again, property that passes to the joint owner avoids probate and is not accessible to other beneficiaries of the deceased person&aposs estate or creditors.
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You see a lot less of "she reminds me of everybody standing outside of probate court" and the comparisons to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.
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Or the other time he was removed from the court after urging probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2013.
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On January 6th, Judge Moore—think of a clean-shaven Yosemite Sam with a gavel—ordered probate judges in Alabama to abide by a 134-page ruling of the Alabama Supreme Court issued on March 3rd according to which "probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage licence contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment or Alabama Marriage Protection Act".
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The claim was filed in Cuyahoga County Probate Court on Wednesday, and family attorney Subodh Chandra was quick to call out the city for the decision.
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That changed Tuesday when Montgomery County probate judge Steven Reed won a runoff election to become the first black mayor of the city founded in 225.
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We broke the story, Prince's sister, Tyka, filed papers to start probate proceedings, stating as far as she knew her brother did not write a will.
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A Massachusetts probate court judge said Friday he has "some concerns" about how much information was being given to Sumner Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Viacom.
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Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ, John's mother, Shelia Ward, is in possession of the will and it will soon be filed with the probate court.
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Under statute 524.2-103 of Minnesota probate code, Tyka, Norrine Nelson, Omarr Baker, John R. Nelson, Alfred Jackson and Sharon L. Nelson are the eligible beneficiaries.
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I was sitting on a long wooden bench in the Shelby County Probate Court hallway when I heard my name called for the very last time.
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The court remanded the case to the probate and family court in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, where the Youngs had a four-day divorce trial in 2013.
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The Massachusetts legislature later recognized as much by voting to remove Loring from the Probate Court, and he is remembered today as an abettor of slavery.
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A probate judge, they argued, was responsible for the welfare of widows and orphans, and should never be entangled in the ruthless business of slave catching.
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Nearly all of the probate judges in the state have been issuing licenses to same-sex couples, though a few have stopped issuing marriage licenses altogether.
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They filed a complaint against Yahoo in probate court in 2009 after it declined to grant them access to the account's contents, citing the 1986 law.
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A Minnesota probate court has spent months sorting through numerous claims by would-be heirs to determine how his estate will be divvied up and controlled.
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And speaking of the probate estate ... it was Juice WRLD's mom, Carmela Wallace, who filed the docs asking to be appointed the representative for the estate.
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Joanne Sue-Kyung Kim and Ayendy José Bonifacio were married May 3033 by Judge Cynthia L. Ebner at the Franklin County Probate Court in Columbus, Ohio.
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The niece, Sabrina Owens, wrote a letter to her lawyer on Thursday announcing her "intent to resign," which was submitted in probate court the same day.
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Trust funds are often used to avoid the probate process, set up a plan for wealth transfer, avoid or defer estate taxes, and give to charity.
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The grandson Jason Freeman, who says he is Manson's grandson, was the first to file in Los Angeles Probate Court to claim Manson's body and estate.
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I've spent the past two years marinating in this mess, trying my best to navigate things like the byzantine probate process and my children's broken hearts.
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Along with listing your assets and who should receive them, it names a guardian for any minor children and an executor to oversee the probate process.
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It is unclear whether Carman will obtain his one-time attorney to defend him against the "slayer" action in probate court—or if he can afford to.
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On Tuesday evening, 290 percent of voters backed probate judge Steven Reed, who was up against David Woods, a white television station owner, according to unofficial results.
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The Broward County Public Defender's Office has just filed legal docs, obtained by TMZ, noting that a probate case has just been opened in his mother's death.
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"From an estate-planning perspective, there are two main objectives when considering proper asset titling: avoiding probate and control over the disbursement of one's assets," Arth said.
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The conflicting opinions had resulted in "confusion and uncertainty," Moore said, with many probate judges issuing marriage licenses to gay couples while others refused to do so.
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Once he won re-election to bench, Moore was suspended for defying federal law by ordering probate judges to not issue marriage licenses for same-sex marriages.
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TMZ broke the story, Manson left everything to Channels and we know he's already informed the Sheriff he's the executor -- and he's filed it in probate court.
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Moore was suspended as chief justice in 2016 for instructing Alabama's probate judges to defy a federal court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Jeffrey Carbone, managing partner at Cornerstone Financial Partners in Huntersville, N.C., said the cost of going through the probate process in that state is $4 per $1,000.
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For estate lawyers and probate judges, knotty conflicts about the mental competence of a benefactor, even charges that someone has exerted "undue influence," are far from uncommon.
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This week, Roy S. Moore—the chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court—ordered probate judges under his jurisdiction not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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The legislation works around the Alabama probate judges who have refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.
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Attorney Howard Finkelstein pleaded with the court to wait until the probate case involving Cruz's late mother's estate concluded and Cruz's net worth could be definitively determined.
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Last year the Uniform Law Commission approved the Electronic Wills Act, which permits the electronic signing of wills and allows probate courts to deem electronic wills legal.
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The mayor-elect graduated from Morehouse, a historically black college in Atlanta, earned an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt and became the first black probate judge in Montgomery County.
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But the appeals court said that because John Nelson was Prince's "presumptive father" under state parentage laws, he was also Prince's "genetic father" under state probate laws.
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Judge George Phelan of Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts, rejected Redstone's motion to dismiss and ruled that the case should proceed in Massachusetts.
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"Roy Moore has advised the probate judges to do something that would be in contempt of court," said Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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The New Day Court is a different kind of specialty court, housed in the Summit County Probate Court, part of an imposing brownstone complex in downtown Akron.
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The estate is being audited by the IRS, which filed a claim this month in a county probate court north of Detroit, David Bennett told The Associated Press.
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In January of this year, Moore ordered Alabama's probate judges to ignore the federal ruling allowing same-sex marriages and refuse to issue licenses to same-sex couples.
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"What they're really trying to do is avoid giving the court jurisdiction over the matter and trying to avoid probate fees and costs," Givner says of Fisher's attorneys.
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended and removed from office in September after directing probate judges to disobey a US Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.
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For example, the father of one of Dr. McClanahan's clients had 60 stock certificates in a locked box, "which would have been a huge probate nightmare," she said.
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It is unclear if Shanann's family plans to move to exclude her husband from probate proceedings so that he does not inherit the estate of his alleged victim.
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Moore's truthfulness was especially an issue in the more recent episode, when he told probate judges not to perform same-sex marriages but then argued he had not.
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Furthermore, minus a will, someone will have to go to probate court, prove a relationship to the deceased and be assigned by a judge to serve as executor.
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Ms. Carter had gone to court in 2016 to successfully persuade Probate Judge Greg Norris of Monroe County to seal the will, citing Ms. Lee's desire for privacy.
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For those with larger assets or more complicated estates, a trust is an alternative document for estate planning that doesn't have to go through the public probate process.
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Mini-Vows Joanne Sue-Kyung Kim and Ayendy José Bonifacio were married May 2 by Judge Cynthia L. Ebner at the Franklin County Probate Court in Columbus, Ohio.
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Couples often opt for "joint tenancy with right of survivorship" or "tenancy by the entirety" to avoid probate, but that can be problematic in simultaneous death cases, Fishkind said.
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The California and Massachusetts courts will need to sort out which of them has jurisdiction, and that may not be easy, said Keith Davidson, a probate lawyer in California.
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George H.W. Bush's will has been filed in probate court and it lists two of his sons -- former President George W. Bush and former Governor Jeb Bush -- as executors.
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In order to avoid probate court, her lawyers are arguing that Fisher had clearly intended those assets to be incorporated into the trust, of which Lourd is the beneficiary.
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Stoll said that any probate judge who follows the order from Moore would be in violation of the federal court order and put themselves at risk for contempt sanctions.
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She says she was never notified about any proceedings in Prince's probate case, which some of his heirs claim is burning cash like crazy managing the singer's posthumous affairs.
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In states that have adopted the simpler, uniform probate code, which is about a third of them, Kevin Flatley, a lawyer at the Keating Law Office in Reading, Mass.
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"We want someone to oversee the assets so it stays the way it is," said Nevada-based probate attorney Richard Chatwin, who is working with Patterson on the petition.
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Chief Justice Roy Moore said the U.S. Supreme Court decision is at odds with earlier opinions by the state's highest court, resulting in "confusion and uncertainty" among probate judges.
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Despite a Federal District Court's order to the state's probate judges, Mr. Moore insisted that until a final ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court, the matter was still unresolved.
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It hung in probate court before it was given to the historical society to be displayed "for and on behalf of" the county, according to court documents from 1974.
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On September 214, Moore is suspended without pay for the remainder of his term because of an order he made prohibiting probate judges to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
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Mr. Ramey died in 1912, and his sister successfully petitioned the probate court to name her administrator of his estate, arguing that he had no widow and no children.
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Life insurance policies, retirement accounts, living trusts, payable-on-death accounts, and property titled with rights of survivorship will go directly to a beneficiary without being subject to probate.
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Payable-on-death accountsMoney held in bank accounts are generally subject to probate unless the account is placed in a trust or holds a payable-on-death (POD) designation.
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The conflicting opinions had resulted in "confusion and uncertainty," Moore said, with many probate judges issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples while others refused to do so.
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Between 1848 and 1860, according to E.J.I.'s research, the Montgomery probate office granted at least a hundred and sixty-four licenses to slave traders operating in the city.
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A: As soon as a will is filed in probate court, it becomes a matter of public record, with the names of the executor and the estate's lawyer listed.
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The unusual complaint was filed in a New Hampshire probate court on Monday, and essentially argues that Carman should not be able to inherit money from people he (allegedly) killed.
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Siegel&aposs lawyers argued the complaint should&aposve been filed in civil court instead of probate court so he could have the right to a jury trial, the paper reported.
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The 26-year-old rapper set up a trust in 2013 and simultaneously executed a will, naming his parents as trustees, according to a court probate obtained by The Blast.
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The documents, a petition for probate of the will and an enumeration of the estate's total property, were filed Thursday in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a home.
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A probate judge has denied that request, citing the law&aposs preference for a surviving spouse, as well as public policy on exhumations occurring for only the most compelling reasons.
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"Some of the documents, though marked 'filed under seal,' are publicly available at the probate court's website, confirming that the documents received by The Times are authentic," the newspaper reported.
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He said the Alabama Supreme Court is still deliberating about the effect of Obergefell and he pointed out that some probate judges, who issue marriage licenses, have asked for guidance.
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In September, Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore was suspended for the remainder of his term for ordering probate judges to enforce a statewide ban on same-sex marriages.
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He contacted Dick's probate lawyer and said the email appeared to be privileged but that Dick had waived the privilege when he forwarded the document to his sister-in-law.
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Probate judges in California can appoint two kinds of conservators: ones responsible for a person's physical and mental health, and others who are put in charge of the individual's finances.
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In paperwork filed Tuesday in Weld County probate court, Watts' family indicated that the 34-year-old had not made official arrangements for her estate after her death, PEOPLE confirms.
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My mother didn't have a will when she died in 2014, so after over two years in probate court, we — my brother, sister, and I — sold her house for $75,000.
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She said they could then function as a more sophisticated power of attorney; they could also help avoid the probate process of a will that delays access to the assets.
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In probate court in Oklahoma City, Judge Richard Kirby approved Jones Energy Inc's plan to purchase 18,000 acres of oil and gas leasehold interests for $136.5 million from the estate.
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If nothing else then, the probate process here may ultimately be less messy than it could have been: there are siblings, and the law says they should share in the estate.
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The conflicting decisions in Washington and Montgomery, the chief justice wrote, led to "confusion and uncertainty" among Alabama's probate judges about how to apply the federal court's opinion in Obergefell v.
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In a post on Twitter, Judge Steven L. Reed of Montgomery County Probate Court called the order a charade and said he would continue to process marriage licenses for all couples.
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Last month, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended for issuing an administrative order to state probate judges that they should not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Last month, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended for issuing an administrative order to state probate judges that they should not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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While the Alabama Supreme Court weighs the issue, probate judges "have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary" to the state's law banning same-sex marriage, Moore said.
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BOSTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts probate court judge said Friday he has "some concerns" about how much information was being given to Sumner Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Viacom Inc.
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But she did not have even a basic will, leaving her reported $22.3 million estate to go through probate, a process that any estate lawyer would make sure a client avoided.
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" On Tuesday, John D. Casey, the chief justice of Massachusetts' probate and family court, issued an unprecedented advisory open letter that said, in cases of self-quarantine, "both parents should cooperate.
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The legal guardian of the couple's two minor children successfully argued to the probate court that Feldman was not entitled to the proceeds after he was charged with his wife's murder.
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Reed graduated from Morehouse College, a historically black college in Atlanta, and received his M.B.A. at Vanderbilt University before becoming the first black probate judge in Montgomery County, according to Time.
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He said while he doesn't have a dollar figure on the value of her assets, the lack of a will means the finances will become public in Oakland County Probate Court.
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His father was not among the names in the "Petition for Probate" list, which outlines all of the beneficiaries and fiduciaries named in the will and in the Michael Jackson Family Trust.
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BuzzFeed News previously reported that Dunlap and at least one of other member, Alan King, a probate judge and election official in Alabama, received emails about commission business at their personal accounts.
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Under settlement terms, which must be approved by a probate judge, Rice's estate will receive $5.5 million and Rice's mother, Samaria, and his sister will each receive another $250,000, the documents said.
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As part of the settlement, which must be approved by a probate judge before being finalized, the city will not admit any wrongdoing, Zoe Salzman, one of the family's lawyers, tells PEOPLE.
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On a Sunday night last February, hours before same-sex marriages were scheduled to begin in the state, he issued a similar order to probate judges, most of whom defied the edict.
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This week a court in Minnesota appointed a special administrator and made a determination that all possible heirs have been identified and given the opportunity to be part of the probate proceedings.
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For instance, as long as the beneficiary named on any life insurance policies and qualified retirement accounts remains alive, those assets go directly to the beneficiary and are not subject to probate.
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Last year, he was permanently suspended after a disciplinary panel ruled he had urged probate judges to defy federal court decisions on gay marriage and deny wedding licenses to same-sex couples.
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It's also possible that Fisher, who starred as Princess Leia in the wildly successful Star Wars franchise, has additional funds in trusts that would not necessarily be included in this probate filing.
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Moore was reelected as Chief Justice in 2013, but refused to acknowledge the Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage in 2016 by directing his probate judges to enforce Alabama's marriage ban.
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Relatives and their lawyers — along with a throng of reporters — packed the Carver County probate court for the first hearing on the estate of Prince, who may have died without a will.
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The co-executors of Epstein's estate, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, on Thursday filed documents in probate court in the Virgin Islands asking for expedited approval of the voluntary claims resolution program.
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Each of the lawyers, all Democrats ranging in age from 31 to early 60s, will join the bench in January for four-year terms in the civil, criminal, family and probate courts.
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In essence, it's a way of consolidating those assets and moving them to heirs swiftly and efficiently, without getting the whole process tangled up in the red tape of the probate process.
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"In its purest form, it will be tourism for our county, and that's a green industry," said Monroe County Probate Judge Greg Norris, who has spoken to the principals about the plan.
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NASHVILLE — It is the latest chapter in one of the more tangled stories of an American presidential corpse — a tale of love and cholera, betrayal and real estate, honor and probate law.
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Property that is not jointly owned or set up to transfer directly to a beneficiary - like a bank account- can end up being evaluated in an expensive and time-consuming probate process.
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After the wills were discovered in May by Owens, attorneys for Franklin's four sons were unable to resolve the issue and headed to court to determine if the wills are admissible to probate.
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Let's be honest: if you're a single, rudderless forty-something whose assets consist of some commemorative plates and a rusted Dodge Dart, your family won't be racing to probate court after your funeral.
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An individual can also create a revocable living trust, which essentially serves as a will but has the added benefit of avoiding probate, the sometimes-lengthy court-directed process to settle a will.
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So it took everyone by surprise that day when Laura announced that the brothers had ultimately agreed to sign off on the probate paperwork, transferring one of the properties back to the sisters.
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The Times - Increases of up to 21,2000 pounds ($230,22) in probate fees were thrown into doubt yesterday after a parliamentary panel of experts in the United Kingdom said that they were unlawful. bit.
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What Moore did not mention is that in July, after the Obergefell decision came down, a federal judge in Alabama said that the ruling was binding upon all probate judges in the states.
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Carman, 24, of Vernon, Vermont, filed the probate court action after his request last year for $150,000 from the trust for legal expenses was rejected, court documents filed by Santilli&aposs lawyers say.
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" The Court of the Judiciary, a nine-member panel made up of Alabama judges, lawyers and appointed citizens, noted that his order would "put 68 probate judges in direct defiance of federal law.
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In January he issued his order to the probate judges, informing them that they had a "ministerial duty" to refuse licenses to same-sex couples until a state-level decision was handed down.
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Cruz appeared at a hearing on April 11 as a probate judge tried to determine whether taxpayers will pick up the tab for the teen's defense or he can pay for his defense.
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The will will likely have to be taken to a city office to go through the process of probate—the legal execution of a will, which helps transfer property over to any heirs.
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Denver police officers were handling a domestic violence call on December 29 when they discovered the suspect had a loaded Glock pistol in his waistband, according to a filing in Denver Probate Court.
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They also say that many judges, who usually preside in probate or family court, do not have the time or expertise to conduct more than a cursory review before granting a guardianship petition.
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According to the docs, Harry's personal property is worth $17,293,187 ... but the total value of the estate could be higher if there are any separate trusts that are not part of the probate estate.
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Moore has been removed from office twice, once for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument from Alabama&aposs judicial building and then suspended for insisting probate judges refuse same-sex couples marriage licenses.
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Terry Williams, whose father's estate was taken over by strangers even though he'd named her the executor of his will, has spent years combing through guardianship, probate, and real-estate records in Clark County.
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"This is what I want you to put in the statute, and I will tell you that you will get a rousing hand from a couple of judges who practice our probate," he said.
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" Richard Black, who, after his father-in-law was placed into guardianship, became the director of a grassroots national organization, Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship, said that he considered the Parks indictment "irrefutably shallow.
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Judge Jeffrey Benson has only been a probate juvenile judge in Ross County for two years, but with a 214-year career as a trial lawyer prior, you could say he's seen it all.
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After again being elected as chief justice in 2012, Mr. Moore last year was suspended for the rest of his term after he instructed probate judges to not issue licenses for same-sex marriages.
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Ohio probate Judge Ralph Winkler, charged with distributing the settlement reached between the university and the family of Sam DuBose, also ruled on Monday that DuBose's mother would receive $90,4.853, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
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According to docs filed in probate court, and obtained by TMZ, Norman Yates Carthens says Prince adopted him -- he's not specific about when -- and claims there IS a will that could make him rich.
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In Alabama this month, the chief justice of the state's top court ordered probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and at least two counties stopped giving out the licenses altogether.
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Ultimately, the probate of Prince's estate and the saga that results will reinforce two sobering realities: that all of us should have a will, but most of us still won't bother to get one made.
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After winning his position back in 2012, he was again forced out after defying the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage by ordering probate judges not to give marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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As we reported, Robin and Brennan filed legal docs in Alan's probate case, claiming Tanya threatened to go to the tabloids and trash them if they didn't give her what she wanted from Alan's estate.
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Last summer, the behaviour of Alabama's highest court made for what Howard Wasserman called an "uncertain, inefficient, chaotic and even ugly" tangle of state and federal litigation that left probate judges reeling under contradictory orders.
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But that view seems at odds with the conclusions routinely drawn about her at probate court in Los Angeles, where an undisclosed mental illness and substance abuse led her family to take action in 2008.
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According to Colorado state probate code, if an adult dies without a last will and testament, there is a standard succession of inheritance: If the decedent was married, the estate generally goes to the spouse.
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The judge, George F. Phelan of Norfolk County Probate and Family Court, did dismiss the claims brought by Mr. Dauman and Mr. Abrams over their board seats, saying the Delaware court would determine their merit.
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"Plaintiffs miscalculated not only Sumner's resolve, but also the commitment of their fellow trustees to do the right thing," Mr. Redstone's lawyers said in the document, filed in Norfolk Probate and Family Court in Massachusetts.
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The 2014 settlement went to 10 family members, including Armstrong's two sons, sister, brother, and six grandchildren, according to documents filed with the Hamilton County Probate Court in Cincinnati, which were publicly available on Tuesday.
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Madison County Probate Judge Tommy Ragland said his office in Huntsville stopped giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Wednesday but resumed handing them out a day later after the county attorney approved it.
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The Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court could be removed from the bench over an administrative order he sent telling the state's probate judges to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage.
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The scrawled documents — found in a locked cabinet and under the sofa cushions of Franklin's home in suburban Detroit — were submitted to a probate judge on Monday to determine whether they qualify as valid wills.
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Moore was found to have encouraged probate judges to deny marriage licenses to gay couples six months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that everyone has a fundamental right to marry in all 50 states.
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Moore was suspended from the court again after his 2012 election when he told probate judges to keep enforcing the state's ban on same-sex marriage despite the Supreme Court's decision to legalize it nationwide.
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Sarah Palin and Chuck Norris, and a history of defying the federal government (he was suspended from being chief justice for ordering the state's probate judges to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex partners).
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"Many probate judges are issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in accordance with Obergefell; others are issuing marriage licenses only to couples of the opposite gender or have ceased issuing all marriage licenses," he wrote.
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"Ordering the state's probate judges to refuse to issue marriage licenses to all couples who seek them constitutes an exercise in futility," Ronald Krotoszynski, a law professor at the University of Alabama, wrote in an email.
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This typically includes a revocable trust to help keep assets out of probate, a last will and testament, a living will that outlines your medical treatment in case you're incapacitated and a durable power of attorney.
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The panel "should be expanding the rights of our citizens to vote, instead of arguably looking for ways to keep people from voting," wrote Alan L. King, a Democrat and probate judge in Jefferson County, Ala.
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One of two bidders at the probate sale, he prevailed, though it would be four years before renovations were completed and he moved in, and another five before he felt that he fully inhabited the property.
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The executor filed legal docs with the probate court, stating that he would allow Samantha's royalties claim, which includes a share of the non-touring merch, publishing rights and a share of the master sound records.
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New figures released this week show that the average price tag for a death after funeral costs and probate in the UK rose to £9,493 ($12,2040) in 250, an increase of over 295 percent since 250.
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A judge in Wyoming was censured in March for refusing to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies, and an Alabama judge was suspended in September for ordering probate judges to defy federal orders to issue marriage licenses.
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He then defied another federal court order by directing probate judges to continue enforcing an Alabama ban on same-sex marriages, even though such bans had been overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Claims have poured into the probate court since Prince's younger sister, Tyka Nelson, filed a petition seeking appointment of a special administrator for the estate and naming herself and five half-siblings as the only known heirs.
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Without that important document, the music icon's family is being forced to rely on the decisions made in probate court to determine what will happen to everything the superstar left behind, including a trove of unreleased music.
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The financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein executed a new will just two days before he was found dead in his New York City jail cell this month, according to probate documents obtained by NBC News.
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"I think we were all saddened because of her remarks about Trump," said Al Booth, a probate judge now running for a House seat, who recalled campaigning for Roby when she first ran for Congress in 2010.
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The late actress and socialite's will has been revealed, and according to probate court documents obtained by PEOPLE, all of her assets have been consolidated into a trust of which von Anhalt, 74, is the sole trustee.
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The dismissals, subject to a judge's review, underscored the tangled and voluminous testaments of kinship that need to be sorted out by the Minnesota probate court overseeing Prince's estate, estimated to be worth more than $500 million.
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According to statute 524.2-103 of Minnesota probate code, half-siblings Baker, Jackson, Norrine Nelson, John R. Nelson and Sharon L. Nelson are the eligible beneficiaries to Prince's estate if the singer did not have a will.
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At a hearing on Friday in Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts, Redstone attorney Robert Klieger said his client would agree to a deposition, but that a further medical exam of Redstone is unnecessary.
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On July 1st, a few days after the justices did just that by a 5-4 vote, Judge Granade ordered that the injunction against probate judges enforcing Alabama's gay-unfriendly law was "in effect and binding" statewide.
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In a 50-page ruling on Friday, the state Court of the Judiciary found Roy Moore guilty of six judicial ethics violations for ordering the state's probate judge to resist the U.S. Supreme Court's marriage equality verdict.
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Alan King, a Democrat who is a probate judge from Jefferson County in Alabama, said he has not seen evidence of voter fraud - but said local governments need help from Congress to keep up with changing technology.
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The Maine Attorney General's office has said it is monitoring the probate proceedings because Mr. Indiana's will left the assets of his estate to a charitable organization, a nonprofit corporation known as the Star of Hope Foundation.
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There is a complicated process for opening them, said Pierro at Pierro, Connor & Strauss, and if you haven't named another person on the box, your family would have to go through probate court to access its contents.
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Moore wrote in his order that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling was at odds with a decision last March by the Alabama Supreme Court that instructed probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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In 2016, he was suspended from the Alabama Supreme Court, where he acted as chief justice, because he refused to let the state's probate judges issue same-sex marriage licenses after the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision.
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That could help curtail the financial consequence of an asset being included in two estates in rapid succession, like estate taxes or a second round of probate expenses, and help you better direct where an asset ends up.
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In Alabama earlier this month, the chief justice of the state's top court ordered the state's probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and at least two counties stopped giving out the licenses altogether.
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The sons, with attorney Alex Weingarten, have filed legal docs in Alan's probate case, claiming his widow, Tanya Callau, is greedy and overreaching to get a bigger piece of the pie than their dad intended in his will.
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Moore wrote in his order that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling was at odds with a decision in March 2015 by the Alabama Supreme Court that instructed probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Also on Wednesday, lawyers for Philippe P. Dauman, the chief executive of Viacom, and George S. Abrams, a longtime Viacom director, filed a motion with Norfolk Probate and Family Court in Massachusetts to expedite proceedings in the case.
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After talking with my neighbor's daughter, I learned that her father left the house to his sons, but nobody in the family will spend the money to get the property out of probate, and the brother died intestate.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals said the judge overseeing Prince's estate correctly interpreted state parentage and probate laws in rejecting the would-be heirs' bid to share in a fortune estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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In a filing with the Norfolk Probate and Family Court, Dauman and Abrams also asked for a court order requiring the 93-year-old Redstone to provide medical records relating to his mental condition for the past six years.
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BuzzFeed News has confirmed that at least two commission members, Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap and Alan King, a probate judge and election official in Alabama, sent or received messages about commission business at a personal email account.
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Chief Justice Roy Moore had gone on trial on Wednesday on charges that he violated Alabama's canons of judicial ethics by ordering probate judges to withhold marriage licenses from same-sex couples, despite federal court rulings to the contrary.
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This time the complaint, currently under consideration by the Judicial Inquiry Commission, is that he abused his authority, and undermined public trust in the judiciary, by counselling probate judges to flout federal orders to issue same-sex marriage licences.
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We glimpsed a similar phenomenon in Alabama in 2015, when now-Senate candidate and alleged child abuser Roy Moore ruled from the state's Supreme Court that probate judges weren't obligated to observe the U.S. Supreme Court's findings in Obergefell.
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Last spring, he directed probate judges in Alabama not to abide by a Federal District Court's order striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, holding that issuing licenses to same-sex couples would violate the Alabama Constitution.
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The United States Supreme Court's decision was not binding on Alabama directly, he said, and so Chief Justice Moore was only informing confused probate judges what the law was as they waited to hear from the State Supreme Court.
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On Tuesday morning, Judge George F. Phelan of the Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Massachusetts is scheduled to oversee a hearing on the motion by Mr. Dauman and Mr. Abrams to expedite the proceedings in the case.
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Leanna Johannes, vice president and senior wealth strategist at PNC Wealth Management, said bad planning and a misdirected desire to avoid having the will sent through the probate process could lead to one child receiving more than the others.
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Lawyers for The Times argued that wills filed in a probate court in Alabama are typically public records, and that Ms. Lee's privacy concerns were no different from those of others whose wills are processed through the court system.
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Don&apost procrastinate with your will or trustWhen someone dies without a will or trust in place, their heirs often struggle through the probate process, where a judge ultimately approves who gets what and how your estate is handled.
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If you fail to name a beneficiary on your life insurance policy, the death benefit will likely be paid to your estate and have to go through probate before any of your loved ones can get access to it.
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Alabama Probate Judge Alan King, a Democrat, added that he was surprised that people could be registered to vote in more than one state and asked to discuss a recommendation that people can only be registered in one state.
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The possible family feud that looms is reminiscent of the Los Angeles Clippers, whose former owner Donald Sterling and his estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, got into an ugly probate-court fight over the ownership and sale of the team.
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Over the past couple years, Moore had repeatedly told the state's probate judges that they couldn't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples until the Alabama Supreme Court, which Moore oversaw, said otherwise — no matter what the federal courts said.
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On Wednesday, Chief Justice Moore, who is among the country's most prominent religious conservatives, argued, in part, that probate judges should not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples because of a State Supreme Court decision that upheld Alabama's marriage prohibitions.
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Moore was re-elected as Chief Justice to the state Supreme Court in 2012, but was suspended in 2016 for instructing Alabama probate judges to defy the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 ruling that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right.
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The intrigue: Blankenship was released from prison just six months ago, and according to USA Today investigative reporter Brad Heath, isn't allowed to leave Nevada without permission from a judge or probate officer until May because he's on federal supervision.
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Despite the decision and a federal court ruling that made gay marriage legal in Alabama, Moore in January issued an administrative order to state probate judges that they should not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, according to court documents.
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The trial this time centered on a four-page administrative order that the chief justice sent out in January to the state's 68 probate judges, informing them of their "ministerial duty" not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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After hearing arguments from both sides for over five hours, Judge George F. Phelan of Norfolk County Probate Court said he "had a lot of information to digest" before he could make any rulings, including whether to dismiss the case.
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That seemed the case on Friday, when Roy S. Moore, chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was suspended for the rest of his term for ordering the state's probate judges to defy federal court orders on same-sex marriage.
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By the time the Hughes inheritance was settled by a probate court jury in Texas in 1981, more than 600 people had made claims to the fortune, and 40 wills, all supposedly written by Mr. Hughes, had been produced and rejected.
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When assets are left through a will, about 5 to 15 percent of the total value of the estate goes to pay probate and legal fees, said Kevin Ruth, the head of wealth planning and personal trust at Fidelity Investments.
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Trusts can shelter assets from going through probate, or the legal process that happens after a person&aposs death in which the courts handle the payment of debts and taxes, and distribute remaining property according to the will or state law.
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Steven Reed, a county probate judge who is black, defeated David Woods, a white businessman who owns a regional television station, unofficial results posted online by the city show, by winning 67 percent of the vote in a nonpartisan runoff.
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