Prenuptial agreements get litigated all the time in probate proceedings. The challenge
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Tax the Rich?
It’s an election year, which means if you’re a trusts and estates
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A civil dispute over guardianship
First filed in 2014, this contested guardianship proceeding has dragged on in
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Is a homestead order entered by a probate judge lacking jurisdictional authority binding on third parties?
Sometimes third parties who had no knowledge of a family’s probate proceeding
Continue Reading Is a homestead order entered by a probate judge lacking jurisdictional authority binding on third parties?Does a signed “consent” = “written agreement” to altering your share of an estate?
Most probate proceedings are uncontested family affairs. In almost all respects that’s
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Does Florida’s post-divorce automatic revocation rule for Wills apply to fiancés?
In 1951 Florida added a provision to its Probate Code automatically cutting
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Court says YES to alternate charitable donation of Janet Reno’s home; Florida’s “cy pres” doctrine saves the day
When Janet Reno executed a trust in 2008, it was just a
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Are Florida’s courtroom doors closed to older claimants seeking to establish paternity in probate proceedings, but wide open for everyone else?
If a man dies intestate, any children he had while married
Continue Reading Are Florida’s courtroom doors closed to older claimants seeking to establish paternity in probate proceedings, but wide open for everyone else?Can “excusable neglect” get you an extension to file a late homestead election?
One of the basic building blocks of Florida probate law is the
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Can a co-op be homestead property? (Part II)
The key to understanding this case is recognizing that one word —
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