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London Billionaire Probate Dispute: Stepmother is Locked Out of Her Apartment Over 2 Paintings (worth over $750 thousand)!

Uncategorized Sep 14, 2015
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If you have children from multiple marriages or are remarried you need a  good estate plan more than ever. A poorly drafted will could mean family fighting for years, even decades. West Palm Beach probate litigators know that just because a family is “happy” does not mean everything will be easy when it comes time to read the will and distribute the property. Can your will stand up to the test? If you want to know how bad it can get take a look at this story of a billionaire’s family feud over an apartment, all the while billions are there to split!

Family Infighting and Will Contests

  • If you have a poorly drafted will you may be inviting a West Palm Beach will contest.
  • You may be thinking that your family is just not the type but is that really worth risking?
  • Experienced Palm Beach probate litigators know that it is not always easy to predict who is going to contest the will and why.
  • The goal is to be protected from all angles.
  • Furthermore, the plan should be implemented with a personal representative who knows what to do.
  • Few people realize that probate is not instant someone has to go file that will in the West Palm Beach probate court.
  • Failure to act quickly is not going to stop the estate’s bills from piling up.
  • West Palm Beach condo fees are due on the first of the month whether you are there or not!
  • Failure to have probate instituted quickly could spell defaults and penalties for all the things that are not being looked after.
  • Do you want to see your assets devalued after your death?
  • Worse do you want to know that your family is left fighting over it all, spending their inheritance on lawyers and not life!
  • That is what is probably going to happen in a recent inheritance dispute out of England that involves billions. 
  • Check it out and learn from their mistakes.

Billionaire’s Wife Locked Out Over Art

  • The widow of the late property tycoon and billionaire Alfred Taubman has been locked out of her London apartment after her step children changed the locks!
  • She claims that the apartment was left to her but the estate has not begun processing in court yet.
  • In the mean time this entire dispute has arose over two paintings that together are valued at about 700k thousand dollars (400 pounds sterling) meanwhile there arestill billions of dollars!
  • If this is how they act over less than a million what can you expect during this probate war?
  • Stepmother vs. Stepchildren can be some of the ugliest probate battles and frankly you do not want to leave that legacy.
  • Experienced Palm Beach probate litigators are prepared to assist you in making a rock hard estate plan eliminate these problems before they start. 
  • Litigators know what to fight over so they also know how to keep those issues from ever arising. 

Want to learn more about this billionaire’s oncoming inheritance war?

Check out a recent article out of the Telegraph (a UK newspaper) just click here.