Palm Beach estate litigation firms and their beneficiary and executor clients know that probate litigation combines a lot of “stuff.” Probate litigators from Palm Beach Gardens to Boca Raton use evidence & Florida probate law to apply it to very fact-specific will challenges & inheritance lawsuits. You need credible evidence, or what the Palm Beach probate courts call “substantial competent evidence.” So, can a computer-generated report get admitted into evidence at a Palm Beach estate lawsuit trial? Isn’t it hearsay and inadmissible?
Florida Evidence
- Is the computer generated report “evidence” & admissible?
- Can you have the expert or technician who prepared the report testify?
- What was the computer-generated report based on?….more hearsay?
Florida Probate Code & Rules of Evidence
- remember, if you are a Palm Beach executor or personal representative or heir at law
- And you are in the middle of a probate litigation trial: consider
- The Florida rules of evidence apply to your inheritance lawsuit: NOT JUST the Florida Probate Code
- You need someone to lay a foundation to begin to introduce the probate evidence
- The evidence needs to be relevant to the Palm Beach probate
- The evidence cannot be excluded based upon the exclusionary rules of the Florida Evidence Code
- You need to know why you are introducing the evidence: Q: for what purpose?