Are you drafting a West Palm Beach trust or will? Do you plan on having a dispute resolution clause? Are you currently evaluating whether or not to include an arbitration clause? Do you know the difference between traditional dispute resolution in a Palm Beach trial court and an arbitration clause controlled by the American Arbitration Association?
Do you have adult relatives or loved ones that may have failing faculties in their old age? Are you prepared to file for a Palm Beach guardianship to protect them? What happens after you file those petitions in Palm Beach court? Is the Court going to take your word for it that they are incapacitated? Under Florida law they will have to submit to a competency examination. Want to learn more? Check out this recent case out of the Second District of Appeal.
Do you know what an “award in lieu of Homestead” is? Do you know what homestead rights you have in West Palm Beach? What is a petition for an award in lieu of homestead and when should you file one? Check out what happened in a recent case out of Washington State.
If you follow this blog regularly you know that you have to protect your assets from everyone. That includes potential new spouses, children, loved ones and needless to say caretakers. So maybe this should come as no surprise to you but apparently you also have to look out for the clerk of court in some jurisdictions? In a recent case out of the Supreme Court of Texas it was revealed that for more than a decade, a rogue probate clerk looted millions of dollars from intestate accounts in a Texas County. Do you know how to protect your assets? Check out these four tips to avoid these tragedies.
Has someone pilfered or stolen from one your relative’s estates? Do you know what actions you may be able to pursue in Palm Beach court? Do you know what the tort of conversion is? Want to see how to perfect a West Palm Beach claim against an individual for conversion? Take a look at this case out of New York.
Palm Beach probate litigators know that people will go to any lengths to protect or harness aninheritance. What is the farthest you would go to secure 65 million dollars? Would you exhume your own father’s remains? That’s what one New York woman did to get her inheritance. Want to know more? Check out the gruesome details here.
Have you recently executed a West Palm Beach will? Did you appoint a personal representative? If you used a legal document web service you may want to make sure that your personal representative is fit to serve. Do you know what makes a person unfit to serve as a personal representative in West Palm Beach? Check out these four factors to consider in choosing your personal representative. Other wise the West Palm Beach probate division may be choosing pursuant to statute!
If you follow our blog you know the importance of the personal representative. Do you know the duties of a personal representative in a West Palm Beach will administration? Also do you know how the judge and court will decide who the personal representative is? What happens if the person you appointed is not fit to serve? Do you know the requirements before you appoint a non-relative from out of State? Learn more about how to select your West Palm Beachpersonal representative.
Are you currently serving as a personal representative of a West Palm Beach estate? Have you noticed all the filings that you are being sent? Do you know what to do with them? Do you know what a caveat is? Why are these being filed by all of your parent’s estate’s creditors? An experienced West Palm Beach probate litigator can help you understand these documents andcreditor’s rights in a West Palm Beach probate.
Do you want to disqualify your trial judge in a West Palm Beach will contest? Do you know what you will have to prove? What about the affidavits you will have to file? Experienced Palm Beach probate litigators know that merely having a “technically sufficient” motion may not be enough. Don’t believe me? Check out this scathing dissent from a case out of the Fourth District Court of Appeal.