probate

If there is a valid beneficiary designation, the IRA will generally pass to the beneficiaries outside of probate, so you would not retitle it as an estate asset.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

The trust fund fight began in June, when Reiner first petitioned for the money in probate court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

According to the probate filings, he continued to pursue fees he was owed through the trust, and received money in April.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

For the first two decades, the firm specialised in managing probate house clearances, cessation of business asset disposals and private chattels.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

At a probate hearing after the death of George Bigheart, an attorney expressed bafflement at why loans ostensibly from Burt’s bank to the Osage were issued from Burt’s personal checkbook.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

The writer is a lawyer who specializes in wills, trusts, estates and probates.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022

The website may also include information regarding probates, trusts and guardianships.

From Encyclopedia.com ● Jun. 12, 2018

The legal work was the basic fare: deeds, wills, taxes, probates, landlord issues, residency.

From Washington Post

Marriage licences and small probates were what we all looked for, and what paid us best; and the competition for these ran very high indeed.

From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

His abbatial functions, however, are confined to convening ecclesiastical courts, and granting probates of wills, and licenses for marriages, subject only to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Armagh.

From Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

Once a valid will is discovered, Florida law requires it to be submitted to the probate court, even if it is decades old and/or contradicts how the estate was probated.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

"The estate will actually be probated in accordance with intestate succession laws and the children would be lawfully next in line to inherit," he said.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025

His law license will also be held in probated suspension for a year, which means he must comply with specific requirements but can practice law during that time.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2024

Starr County District Attorney Gocha Ramirez agreed to pay a $1,250 fine and have his license held in a probated suspension for 12 months in a settlement reached with the State Bar of Texas.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

"A very strange will," said everybody, and yet it was a will that was probated long before the testator's death.

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen

Our son understands that there will be costs associated with probating our wills.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Those chores can include arranging the funeral, probating the estate, closing accounts, canceling services and dealing with various government agencies, including Social Security and the IRS.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022

The words judicial proceedings relate to the outcome of court actions: damage awards, the probating of wills, divorce decrees, and so forth.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2016

Originally facing 45 felony charges, he later plead guilty to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to probating and community service.

From Forbes ● Dec. 23, 2014

Major Winthrop was absent with the army on the northern frontier, but made no objection to the probating of the will at a special court in New London in 1689.

From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene