probate

If you are the beneficiary of your mother’s life-insurance policy, the $12,000 will be paid directly to you rather than becoming part of her probate estate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

This streamlined process allows estates like your mother’s to be settled more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional probate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Trusts are a common tool for bypassing probate, but states offer other options as well,” it adds.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

Do we still have to go through probate?

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

To this court is likewise given authority to grant probates of wills and administration of the personal estates of intestates dying within the settlement.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. by David Collins

Such were the citation of laymen out of their dioceses, the excessive fees taken in spiritual courts, the delay and trouble in obtaining probates.

From Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

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

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

His will, devising the estate to me, was duly probated, and I entered upon my inheritance by due process of law.”

From A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance by Horatio Alger

There isn’t a statute of limitations on probating a will, but you must generally contest a will during the probate process.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

Or were they to go on trying cases, enforcing the 'collection of debts, and probating wills precisely as if no Stamp Act had ever been heard of?

From The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England by Carl Lotus Becker