This is a very common question that I have encountered in my 38 years of practicing in the area of Probate. There are many reasons why there may be a Will that you are not named in. The most common scenario is that the decedent had a Will that he or she executed prior to […]
Unless you have been living on another Planet of late, you have been seeing the rise of finance companies in all phases of life, cars, houses, and in litigation and legal controversies. As a lawyer, I started seeing it maybe 15 to 20 years ago when I first noticed it in Commercial Litigation cases to […]
At Jet Probate we take many calls a day regarding Probate. The most common question by far is: My Dad died, but he had a Will. Yet, the bank, real estate agent, or life insurance company is telling me, that the Will must go through Probate. The caller seems to believe that when Dad died […]
Over my 38-year career as an Estate Planning and Probate Lawyer I have heard way too many times about the “evils of Probate”. Since I can remember, many Estate Planning Lawyers have preached the “evils” in order to push a Revocable Living Trust. Although a Trust can eliminate the process of a Probate, that doesn’t […]
