If you are the child, a son or daughter, of a Florida resident who just passed away, you may be wondering if you areentitled to an inheritance. So, are adult children entitled to get an inheritance from aFlorida probate? Or, does Florida estate law permit adult children to be dis-inherited?
If you are named the executor of a will in Florida, get ready…. maybe. Many persons named in a Florida to run the probate estate are not permitted to be the Personal Representative Palm Beach. You can watch afree Palm Beach probate video on the topic of who may be the Personal Representative of aPalm Beach probate estate at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7oxB3d-rcw&feature=youtu.be
If you got cut out of a will or a Boca Raton estate plan and believe that it was the fault of the estate planning attorney Palm Beach, you might be thinking about suing for malpractice. A new estate planning malpractice case was just handed down on October 29, 2014 by the Supreme Court of South Carolina and it’s got everyone talking about writing wills & trusts and estate planning malpractice, including here in Palm Beach.
Florida law on estate planning malpractice was cited in a landmark Supreme Court of South Carolina case involving estate plans & malpractice allegations. The Supreme Court commented on the Florida law issue of “privity,” or the privity exception to the estate plan malpractice rule that you generally must be in privity with the attorney who you believe committed malpractice.
If you are a Florida widow or a surviving spouse of someone who just passed away in Florida, you have a GUARANTEED INHERITANCE. There is a new video on Palm Beach probate which talks about your GUARANTEED survivor rights as a Florida widow or spouse. Here is a Florida probate video which you can watch for free online about survivor rights to Florida probates, including the guaranteed survivor rights of a widow or wife or husband under Florida estate law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwB4ySmvS4A&feature=youtu.be What are my rights as a widow under Florida probate law? Palm Beach probates provide very valuable inheritance rights for widows and wives and husbands who survive Under the Florida probate code, a spouse can automatically inherit 30-50% of the Palm Beach estate depending on a number of factors such as Was there a Florida will? Did the Florida will leave you out? Cut you out? Disinherited? Did the Florida will leave everything to someone else like an old spouse or a different beneficiary? Did your husband or wife forget to change the will? Are all his assets in joint accounts or survivor accounts? Pay on death? Do you know how to get those ? If there is not will, you can still inherit 50% or half of the Boca Raton estate. Delray Beach probate lawyers know that it doesn’t (necessarily) matter what the will or the Boynton Beach living trust says. Widows get a guaranteed inheritance in Palm Beach estates! Unless you waived your estate rights or signed a […]
If you have rich parents, you may be wondering about your Florida inheritance, right ? And you may be wondering if you can be disinherited, particularly if your mom or dad just married someone new. There is a New York probate litigation case which involves these issues, not that different than the estate lawsuits we see in Palm Beach County Probate Court
If you are trustee Palm Beach and are involved in a trust lawsuit Florida or legal issue of restitution, you may want to read a recent, November 5, 2014 Florida trust appeals case from Florida’s 2nd District Court of Appeal. This Florida trust case also deals with the legal issues of res judicata and the rule against splitting causes of action, which your trust litigator Delray Beach may want to know about.
Ask any probate litigator Palm Beach and they will probably tell you that, for good or bad, guaridanship lawsuits Florida are exploding. Adult children now face off against each other, against their mom or dad’s most recent spouse, in a battle to control someone’s personal rights and freedoms or Florida property. There is a recent, August 27, 2014 Florida appeals case on attorneys fees inFlorida guardianships that you may want to read if you are involved in guardianship litigation Palm Beach.
If you are involved in probate litigation Palm Beach, and may go to mediation or are talking about a probate settlement agreement, you may want to read this October 15, 2014 case from Palm Beach’s appeals court, the 4th District Court of Appeal (Florida’s 4th DCA).
Are you the trustee of a Florida trust and you have to deal with trust beneficiaries who are, shall we say, a pain in the $*^ ? Maybe your mother or brother from Boca Raton, Florida named you assuccessor trustee of their revocable trust and now you administer the trust. Here are 5 things you, as a Palm Beach trustee, should NOT do when you are running the Florida trust.