probate
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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
Credit-card debt is normally paid, if at all, from the deceased’s probate estate — not from assets that pass outside probate.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
I looked through probate records to see who would have benefited from his death.
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
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
To this court is likewise given authority to grant probates of wills and administration of the personal estates of intestates dying within the settlement.
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
We find his will, probated with Marmaduke Duval as executor, we even discover a notice of his death in the Gazette, and now, finally, you find his body—or the place of its interment!
From In Her Own Right by Clarence F. Underwood
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
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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