If I were to ask you what all Florida probate litigation has in common you may answer with one word “money.” To be sure, very few Florida trust lawyers are working for free and few heirs are suing for something besides money. That being said it does happen. Check out this recent probate lawsuit where a brother and former spouse filed a probate lawsuit regarding who gets to decide what goes on the tombstone.
- Probate Lawsuits Come in All Shapes and Sizes
- Estate lawyers in Florida know probate lawsuits come in all shapes and sizes.
- Some people hire a probate litigation attorney to sue for millions of dollars but others are suing to keep their social security benefits after getting a trust inheritance.
- It may surprise you to learn some Florida probate lawyers are retained for cases that do not involve any money.
- For example not all guardianship cases have financial motives.
- Florida estate lawyers are sometimes retained for things outside of money altogether.
- Check out this recent case out of California where money was not at issue, at all.
Safina v. Sorensen
- This was a very interesting probate appeal from California.
- Probate attorneys Florida know that informal marriages are common in Southern Florida and the rest of the State as well.
- Florida does not still use common law marriages like it used to.
- Florida estate attorneys sometimes end up in some very interesting cases because a long time girlfriend or boyfriend may in all equity deserve the rights of a spouse.
- This case dealt with that issue.
- The main problem was the tombstone.
- How is a tombstone the subject of a probate lawsuit?
- Basically the girlfriend of 48 years wanted the tombstone to say one thing and the decedent’s brother had a different opinion.
- This issue made it all the way up to the appeals Court in California.
- In the end the brother was the one who got to decide what was on the tombstone.
- Do you think that sounds fair?
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