probate

The estate has gone through probate, with the exception of the distribution of the properties.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

During probate, you, as executor, paid the necessary expenses to avoid tax liens, penalties or possible foreclosure while probate was taking place.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

A parent or legal guardian can open and manage an account on the minor’s behalf, or a probate court can appoint a guardian or conservator, or set up a restricted account, depending on state law.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

A payable-on-death designation is a contract with the bank, rather than a bequest, and that share can bypass probate.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 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

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

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

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

There are two principal and important questions to be decided by you: First, is the will sought to be probated, the will of Andrew J. Davis?

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

Additionally, lawyers are now including trusts in those packages because probating wills is time-consuming, expensive and lacks privacy in many states.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 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