For many families, the administration of a decedent's estate proceeds quietly and efficiently. Assets are gathered, debts are paid and property is distributed according to a Last Will and Testament or ...

Learn about probate court's role in managing estates, settling debts, and distributing assets. Explore the probate process ...

When a petitioner offers a will for probate, and the propounded instrument’s validity is contested, objectants oftentimes raise undue influence as an objection to the admission of the will to probate.

At the recent Continuing Legal Education (CLE) meeting of the Bay Ridge Lawyers Association (BRLA), held at Mama Rao’s in Dyker Heights on Jan. 30, members were treated to an enlightening presentation ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Divorce is, at its core, a legal remedy for a deeply human failure, and its consequences are rarely confined to the parties ...

Objectants to an instrument purporting to be decedent's will moved for summary judgment dismissing decedent's son's petition for probate in this contested probate proceeding alleging duress. Proponent ...

When a person dies, his or her relatives often rush to pay that person's credit cards and other bills. Bad idea. In some circumstances, a bill may never have to be paid. We'll briefly explain how ...

In In the Estate of Wheatfall, after Hugh Wheatfall died in 2018, Isaiah Wheatfall filed for letters of administration in February 2019, claiming intestacy, and Theresa DeBose filed to probate a 2009 ...