Son Sues Sisters Over Will Contest & Loses Family Business–August 18, 2015 Texas probate case and will contest

Florida probtae lawyers will understand or recognize this family lawsuit and will contest set of facts: what happens when a son who inherited the family business under dad’s will then gets cut out by a later will? Was the new will the idea of his sisters who inherited the family business? Was the new will an undue influence will contest case? Why would dad leave ALL of the family business to his son in 2000 and then change his will and not leave his son any part of thefamily business in 2006? Many estate planning attorneys from Boca Raton to Miami know that parents do change their estate plans. Some change their revocable trusts Florida often by amendments to their trusts. Others dis-inherit a son or daughter by signing a codicil to their Florida will. For those of you involved in Florida will contests or those of you who got cut out of a will or written out of a Florida trust and were not told about it until dad died, you may want to read this August 18, 2015 probate appeal from Texas. It is from the Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.), In the Estate of Raul Humberto Ayala, Sr., No 14-14-00324. This will contest case was an appeal from the Probate Court No. 2, Harris County, Texas.
Dad Changes His Will — and doesn’t tell his son that son does not inherit the family business
- 2000: Dad signed a will leaving all his stock in the family business to his son Raul
- Six years later, Dad signed a NEW will
- In his new will, in 2006, Dad changed his will drastically
- In this new will, Dad left his family business to his daughters in equal shares
- The 2006 will revoked the 2000 will and made some other changes to the giving ofinheritances in his estate
- So, the new will revoked the prior will: ok, so the daughters inherit?
- No one told the son that he got disinherited
- No one told Raul that Dad changed his will in 2006
- Was the son entitled to be notified that he was not inheriting the family business under this new 2006 will?
- Is a beneficiary of a will who is then written out in a later will entitled to be told that he is no longer a beneficiary under the old will?
Son Sues Daughters: Brother vs. Sisters in Probate Court Will Contest Over Family Business & Undue Influence
- The case of the two wills
- The daughters wanted to probate the later will where they inherit the familiy business
- The son or brother wanted the prior will, the 2000 will, probated
- There was a jury trial on undue influence and this will contest case
- You can read the facts of this will contest lawsuit between family members and see if there was any undue influence or whether this probate lawsuit may be just a case ofsibling rivalry?
- Here is the link to read the entire probate lawsuit case:
- http://www.search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=ab7cf154-1813-4242-9f6f-37d252057b5c&MediaID=d0c7574b-5f63-4aa5-9025-4ffa4291daf8&coa=” + this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt + @”&DT=Opinion