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What do probate litigation heirs need to know about Florida’s offer of judgment law?

Uncategorized Apr 1, 2015
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If you are involved in a probate litigation Palm Beach, one of the “X” factors is the probate attorneys fees.  Who pays your probate litigator’s fees and costs to get your inheritance in a Palm Beach probate?  You may want to read a recent Florida attorneys fees case.  A March 11, 2015 Florida attorneys fee case from Palm Beach’s appeals court: the 4th District Court of Appeal.

Can I get attorneys fees in a probate Palm Beach lawsuit?

  • Are you suing over a Boca Raton inheritance?
  • Do you know how to get attorneys fees in estate litigation Palm Beach Gardens?
  • Fighting over a Jupiter, Florida bank account that’s in the estate?
  • Will contest in Delray Beach, Florida?
  • Do you know the statutes and rules to get your attorneys fees?
  • Before you fight over the Palm Beach homestead in probate court consider:
  • Is the proceeding or legal “forum” “adversary” under the Florida Probate Rules?
  • Do the rules of Florida Civil Procedure apply?

Palm Beach Appeals Case on Offer of Judgment Attorney Fee Statute

  • If the rules of civil procedure, Florida, apply, consider the so called “offer of judgment” statute to get your attorneys fees, or , rather, to try to get your attorneys fees Florida.
  • Consider reading Government Employees Insurance Company v. Ryan, a 4th DCA case out of Florida, an appeal from Broward County.
  • 40 Fla. L. Weekly D 617, decided on March 11, 2015 by Palm Beach Appeals Court Judge Damoorgian.
  • Also, consider reading Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.442 and
  • Florida Statute 768.79 the so called Offer of Judgment Statute
  • Do you know how to get your attorneys fees under Fla. Stat. 768.79.
  • Don’t make your offer too ambiguous.
  • Read this recent Palm Beach case involving an appeal of an attorney fee ruling