Family Blindsided After Exotic Dancer Gets HBO Exec’s Estate and Non-Probate Property. Is This a Matter of Undue Influence to a Probate Court?

Whether you are involved in Florida probate litigation or just like a good read, a recent HBO exec’s will and estate plan is making headlines. Have you heard about the exotic dancer who may have usedundue influence to get a hold of a large executive retirement plan, 401(k) and life insurance policy. Could a Florida estate lawyer undo this?

Undue Influence

• Do you actually understand what undue influence is?
• One way to check your understanding is to explain this to yourself – what is the difference between duress and undue influence?
• Florida probate lawyers know that duress involves using threats of unlawful activity.
• On the other hand undue influence in Florida merely requires the exercise of improper influence, illegal threats are not necessary.
• How can you prove undue influence to the probate judge or Florida jury in your lawsuit?
• The truth it depends on a lot of factors that you can discuss with a Florida will contest lawyer.
• Does an exotic dancer have special skills in undue influence?
• That is what some litigants in New York are saying.
• Get the facts and make up your mind, does she get the inheritance or should this be flagged for undue influence?

HBO Exec’s Heirs Crying Undue Influence

• Papers filed in the surrogate Court in New York claim that an exotic dancer is “adept at applying and using coercion and manipulation upon men.”
• Do you agree?
• This is case about a certain HBO executive who passed away at 50 after suffering from obesity and chronic alcoholism.
• The man apparently befriended a dancer and left her some large assets. How large?
• For starters he left her his 401(k) and to put the cherry on top he left her his $223,000 life insurance policy. 
• How do probate lawyers determine if this is a case of undue influence?
• The man and the dancer struck up a friendship as early as July 2014 when they met at a strip club.
• Is it going to be up to a jury to determine if the changes to the estate plan were legitimate?
• What do you think?

Want to learn more about this interesting probate case?

Check out a recent article from the New York Post before you make up your own mind, click here.

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