Month: September 2020
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The administrator of the estate of a man who died without a will cannot compel an alleged heir to take a DNA paternity test, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled in an issue of apparent first impression.
Monroe County Court of... Continue Reading
Monday, September 14, 2020
Whether or not you have a will, your estate will be probated, which means it will go through a legal process to ensure that your assets are properly distributed. The probate process can be expensive, regardless of the size of... Continue Reading
Friday, September 11, 2020
Probate is the process that transfers legal title of property from the estate of the person who has died (the decedent) to his or her proper beneficiaries.
The term probate refers to a proving of the existence of a valid... Continue Reading
Thursday, September 10, 2020
The relevant question concerning the validity of wills is whether the person was competent at the time the will was made and executed (signed before witnesses). If the person was competent at that time, there is a valid will.... Continue Reading
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Missing wills raise all sorts of interesting legal issues which often turn on the specific facts and circumstances, and the law of the state in which the deceased resided.
The will may be missing because the deceased... Continue Reading