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Will Contest
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The Appellate Strategist
Illinois Supreme Court Agrees to Decide If Accountant-Client Privilege Applies to Will Contests
By Kirk Jenkins
In the closing days of its September term, the Illinois Supreme Court allowed a petition for leave to appeal in Brunton v. Kruger. Brunton involves the scope of the accountant-client privilege…
New Jersey Law Blog
No Contest Clauses Under Wills: Can I Lose My Bequest?
It is not uncommon for Wills to contain “No Contest Clauses” which provide for a beneficiary being disinherited from the Estate should they challenge the Will or any provisions thereof.…
California Trust, Estate & Probate Litigation
What Are You Waiting For? Don’t sit on your rights to contest a California Trust or Will
If you think you have been wrongly disinherited from an estate, please do me a favor and act quickly. I cannot tell you how many people I have talked to…
California Trust, Estate & Probate Litigation
How to Use a Financial Elder Abuse Claim in Your California Trust or Will Contest
When you bring a Will or Trust contest the facts you use to overturn an unfair Will or Trust may also apply to support a Financial Elder Abuse claim. It…
California Trust, Estate & Probate Litigation
Money, family, love, and Wills: Where does it all end for Anna Nicole Smith’s Estate?
Forbes.com reported recently Anna Nicole Smith’s Will contest case may be over…or maybe not so fast. This mess of a case started nearly 19 years ago after the death of…
California Trust, Estate & Probate Litigation
Will 1 vs. Will 2: How do you bring a competing California Will to the attention of the Court?
Competing Wills are at the heart of nearly every Will contest. A parent creates one Will a long time ago and then a second Will just a few weeks before…
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
Can a probate judge ignore your caveat and admit a challenged will to probate before the will contest is adjudicated?
Platt v. Osteen, --- So.3d ----, 2012 WL 6629650 (Fla. 5th DCA December 21, 2012) The outcome of this inheritance dispute turned on two questions: first, was the decedent's will…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Article on Midsummer’s Madness-2014: The Tragic Case of Casey Kasem
Robert L. Moshman, recently published an article entitled, Midsummer’s Madness-2014: The Tragic Case of Casey Kasem, The Estate Analyst, July 28, 2014. Provided below is the introduction to the article:Once more…
New Jersey Law Blog
The Costs of Challenging A Will
The one certainty of litigation, regardless of the type, is that is it costly to all parties who participate in it. When contesting or defending a Will in the context…
California Trust, Estate & Probate Litigation
Legal Burden of Proof in California Trust and Will Contests
You may know that you have to prove your case in Court, but to what extent must it be proven? In this video, Stewart Albertson discusses the legal burden of…