Do you know what a self-proving will is and how it can mainstream your Florida probate administration? Florida estate attorneys know these simple documents are easy to add to any estate plan, at any time. Do you know the rules? Check out this recent probate appeal from the Supreme Court of Wyoming to learn more about the rules of Florida probate?
Self-Proving Wills
- Do you know what a self-proving will is?
- Florida probate lawyers know these documents are an important part of any well thought out estate plan.
- Do you know why?
- It helps to understand the probate process.
- Florida estate attorneys know that when you draft a will it may end up in probate court.
- How do Florida wills get admitted to probate?
- The witnesses to the will signing will have to testify in probate court that they signed.
- Sounds like a pain right?
- What if the witness is no longer around?
- This is where the self-proving affidavit comes in.
- Florida probate attorneys know that these documents allow you to skip the witnesses testimony.
- Do you know why?
- Check out this recent case to learn more.
Estate of Meyer
- This was an appeal from the Supreme Court of Wyoming.
- Do you know why Florida will contest lawyers need to read this opinion?
- In this case the decedent had created a will with a self-proving affidavit.
- He had followed the local probate rules and everything, so why all the dispute?
- The question before the Court was whether it was ok that the witnesses could not remember signing everything.
- The will contestants won at trial as a result of this issue but on appeal the other side won.
- Now the will is going to be admitted to probate.
- Does that sound like the right result to you?
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