probate
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First, as executor, you have the right to a reasonable amount of time to probate the estate, and the beneficiaries will have to wait until that process is complete.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
The police told Diana and Jerry that a hearing had just been held in probate court.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
I can pay for a probate attorney, but he will use my dad’s money to fight me.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
Maine allows certain estates to be settled using a small-estate affidavit rather than the full probate process.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
And as I dug deeper into the Osage murder cases—into the murk of autopsies and witness testimony and probate records—I began to see certain holes in the bureau’s investigation.
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
A civil court also was assembled this month, by which some writs and some probates of wills were granted.
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
The latter oversees the probated estate, the former oversees the trust.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 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
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
Virgin Islands, where Mr. Epstein’s estate is being probated.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2020
"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
Only in probating an estate left by the demise of both parents in the presence of minor children does this legal matter of precise age become noticeable.
From The Fourth R by George Oliver Smith
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