3 Things You Need to Know About Palm Beach Attorneys Fees: Florida probate litigation July, 2015

Are you involved in a trust lawsuit Delray Beach or perhaps a Palm Beach  probate?  If so, what do you need to know about Palm Beach probate lawyers fees and costs?  Maybe you are a beneficiary of a Florida revocable trust and you are concerned about the fees the trustee is spending trust assets on.  Or, maybe you are in the middle of a probate lawsuit Palm Beach Gardens, and you want to know if you can get attorneys fees.  Here are 3 things you can do, read and see, to help you understand probate attorneys fees Palm Beach County regarding Florida probate litigation.

3 Things You Need to Know About Florida Probate Lawyers Fees & Costs

• Before you get the “list” of 3 things you can read or see to help you learn more aboutFlorida probate lawyer fees and costs, here is an intro:

1) You need to know how to ask for probate lawyer fees in your trust or estate lawsuit Florida.

2) You need to understand how fees and costs for Florida probate matters are granted, oropposed and denied, when there is a lawsuit involving a Florida trust or estate, or a Palm Beach Probate.

3) Have you read, and do you understand the Florida Bar Rules Regulating the Florida Bar, specifically Florida Bar Rule 4-1.5, which deals with Florida lawyers and legal fees?

4) Do you understand the factors which a Delray Beach probate court will consider in aprobate lawyer fee hearing or a Palm Beach probate attorney fee trial?

5) Can you reduce the probate lawyer fees or the trustee fees that a Florida probate lawyer may, or may not, get?  Yes you can… but….

6)  Finally, once you understand how fees and costs are granted, or reduced or denied, do you know how to prove your probate attorney fee case at a probate trial, such as a fee hearing in the Probate Court Palm Beach Gardens?

• To help get you there, to assist in your understanding of Florida probate legal fees, here are 3 things which you can read or see which may help you further.
• At the very least, these resources will give you greater insight into the Florida probate & Trust world.

Want to read more, or see free videos, about Florida attorneys fees, Palm Beach probate lawyer fees & trust attorneys fees?

• You can read a July 8, 2015 Florida trust lawsuit appeal case for free at this link:http://www.4dca.org/opinions/July%202015/07-08-15/4D14-2191.op.pdf.
• This Broward trust case is important for the legal point:  “a party’s entitlement to an award of attorneys fees under a statute or a procedural rule is legal question subject to de novo review.” said the  Palm Beach appeals court, which hears Florida trust lawsuits appeals.
• If you don’t plead, or ask for, Palm Beach probate attorney fees, then your attempt to get Florida probate attorney fees is WAIVED !
• This Trust Appeal Case Palm Beach talks about : when does someone in a Florida trust lawsuit waive their right to get lawyer fees from a trust or in a trust lawsuit?
• While the request for Florida trust lawyer fees must be pled, or asked for, there are 2 main exceptions to this Florida attorney fee rule:  the appeals court Palm Beach goes into these 2 exceptions.
• 2 Major Exceptions: 1) where a party to a trust lawsuit or probate lawsuit Florida hasNOTICE that an opponent wants attorney fees and the party fails to object, that party waives any objection to the other side getting attorneys fees; and 2) for cases that aredismissed before the filing of an answer to the trust complaint Florida, a defendant’s claim for Florida attorney fees is to be made in the motion to dismiss OR by a separate motion filed within 30 days of the trust lawsuit being dismissed.
• You may also be interested in reading another recent Florida lawyers fee case which was also decided by Palm Beach’s 4th DCA. This Palm Beach attorney fee appeal was decided on July 1, 2015.
• Here is a free link: http://www.4dca.org/opinions/July%202015/07-01-15/4D14-1849.op.pdf