probate
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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
Ultimately, if your friend’s children are indeed named beneficiaries of the life-insurance policy, the proceeds pass directly to them outside of probate.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Any interested party — a hospital, nursing home, social worker, adult protective services, friend or relative — can file a formal petition with the local probate or superior court.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Typically, the state court — a probate court or superior court — has the power to appoint a guardian/conservator to look after his interests.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 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
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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
In England this policy has been neglected, in taxing the probates of wills, in the legacy duty, and in all taxes affecting the transference of property from the dead to the191 living.
From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo
He probates wills and appoints executors, administrators, and guardians.
From Citizenship A Manual for Voters by Emma Guy Cromwell
Roman Aminov, an attorney based in Flushing, N.Y., says he has probated wills belonging to someone who had died more than 25 years before.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 4, 2025
"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
The will had not yet been probated, but would be within the month, when full particulars would be furnished them.
From The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas by Margaret Vandercook
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
The probating of his will soon disclosed that he had virtually entailed it.
From Great Fortunes from Railroads by Gustavus Myers
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