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Contested Probate
- Should You Sign an Acknowledgement of Service and Assent to Probate Instanter?
- What if Someone is Threatening to Contest the Will?
- What to Do When You Are Accused of Estate Mismanagement
- How Probate Disputes Work in Georgia: The 5 Phases of Every Dispute
- Early Estate Challenges: how to be ahead of the game?
- What happens when a a heir refuses to leave the estate home?
- Objection To A Petition For Year’s Support
- What happens if you attempt to transfer assets without an executor?
- What does a no contest clause mean in a will?
- What to do when some heirs not included in probate?
- Common Estate Disputes: How They Affect The Georgia Probate Process
- What can you do when someone files a fraudulent will?
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Estate Administration
- What Happens to a Bank Account When Someone Dies Without a Beneficiary?
- Executor of Will Powers. What an Executor Cannot Do?
- Year’s Support and Its Benefits to a Surviving Spouse
- What Power Does a Personal Representative Have? And What to Do If They Mismanage the Estate
- What Are Letters of Administration? And How to Get Them in Georgia?
- What Does Joint Tenants with Rights of Survivorship Mean?
- What Is the Difference Between an Executor, Administrator, and Personal Representative?
- If a House Is in Probate Can It Be Sold? Can the Executor Sell the House?
- How Are Beneficiaries Paid from a Will? When Does the Executor Pay Them?
- Hospital Bills After Death. Can Family Members Be Held Responsible for Medical Bills?
- What Is an Executor of Estate and What Do You Need to Know About
- When Does a Power of Attorney End in Georgia?
- How to Deposit a Check Made Out to an Estate When There Is No Estate?
- What Does Being a Co-Executor Mean? Can Co-executors Act Independently?
- How Much Does the Executor of a Will Get Paid?
- What Does It Mean to Be an Estate Administrator?
- Is Probating Both Parents’ Estates Necessary?
- What Does A Will Do?
- Does a last will and testament matter?
- Can an Heir Living on the Property Be Evicted?
- Why is probate necessary to sell or transfer a home?
- How is an Administrator for the Estate Selected?
- How to stop someone from becoming Administrator?
- What is a County Administrator?
- What is an Interim Distribution?
- What is a Temporary Administrator In Georgia?
- 5 Tips on How to Discuss the Estate Over the Holidays
- Not Enough Money in the Estate to Pay the Debts?
- Who will inherit the property in a complex, mixed family estate?
- How To Sell Property Without Expanded Powers In Georgia
- What To Do When You Get A Notice From The Probate Court?
- The Temporary Administrator says they get to keep everything! Is that true?
- What happens when one beneficiary pays all of the expenses for an estate?
- Selling a Deceased Parent’s Home
- What is a Petition For Year’s Support?
- Is the estate financially responsible for the home?
- What is a Probate Estate?
- We cannot find the will! What do we do now?
- Does An Executor Have To Show Accounting To Beneficiaries?
- How Long Can An Executor Take To Settle An Estate?
- What Happens When an Heir Dies While an Estate Is Still in Probate?
- What is a Probate Inventory in Georgia?
- How Does a Probate Bond Work In Georgia?
- How Long Do You Have To Open An Estate
- Probate Bonds, Inventories, & Powers
- The Georgia Probate Process: Three Phases of an Estate
- Does a last will and testament matter? Part 2
- A founder dies, but the business documents are not clear on who is the owner.
- When is real estate inherited by the family?
- A Durable Power of Attorney In Georgia Will Save a Lot of Heartache
Estate Dispute
- Does an Executor Have to Follow the Will? What Happens If He Doesn’t?
- What Does a Caveat to Probate Mean?
- Dealing with Probate Litigation and Estate Disputes in Georgia – A Simplified Guide
- What to do when someone is taking control of the estate?
- What Can an Estate Creditor Do When The Executor Will Not Pay?
- How do you undo estate fraud?
- Can a natural born child be disinherited?
- It’s been years and the executor has not opened the estate. What can I do?
- Can a Will be Contested? 7 Common Will Contest Scenarios
- When an Executor is not acting in the best interest of the estate.
- How to Contest a Will: 7 Legal Objections
- Can you contest a will? 7 Practical considerations before you do.
- What if the wrong person is trying to become administrator of the estate?
- Contesting a Will
- How Can an Executor Live in the Estate Home and Not Settle the Estate?
- What to do when a co-executor of the estate goes rogue?
- Co-Executor Problems & How to Deal with Them
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Probate
- What Are Next of Kin Rights and Responsibilities?
- How Long Does a Probate Sale Take? Do All Heirs Have to Agree to Sell Property?
- If a Parent Dies Without a Will, Who Gets the House in Georgia?
- How Does Probate Work in Georgia?
- What Are the Inheritance Rights of Spouses in Georgia? Does a Spouse Automatically Inherit Everything?
- What Is the Alternative of a Small Estate Affidavit in Georgia?
- Everything You Need to Know About Letters of Testamentary
- What If Someone Is Stealing From the Estate?
- Non-Probate Assets vs Probate Assets. What Assets Are Not Considered Part of an Estate?
- How Long Does the Probate Process Take in Georgia?
- How Are Financial Assets Handled In Probate?
- My Loved One Left a Will, Why Do I Need to Go Through Probate?
- I Think I Have an Heir Property Situation, What Do I Do?
- Life Partners & Probate.
- What to Do When the Will is Lost?
- What is Ancillary Probate?
- Life Insurance in Georgia
- What Does Testate Mean?
- What Does Intestate Mean?
- How to Find a Will in a Safe Deposit Box?
- What does Tenants in Common mean?
- What can you do about Heir Property?
- Does dementia automatically invalidate a Will?
- When can the Estate pay attorney’s fees?
- What is a Guardian ad Litem in Probate?
- 2021 Changes to Georgia Probate Code – Part 2
- 2021 Changes to Georgia Probate Code – Part 1
- What To Do When There Is No Will?
- Is An Unnotarized Will Valid In Georgia?
- What to do when you have Minor Heirs in an Estate?
- Handling Georgia Probate from Out of State
- How To Keep An Estate Peaceful
- What happens when an administrator goes rogue?
- Inheritance Rights After Divorce
- I just received a petition for discharge of personal representative. Should I be concerned?
- What happens when you only have a copy of a will?
- Are heirs supposed to be notified when an estate is opened by a Georgia probate court?
- I thought life insurance did not go through probate?
Real Estate
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Uncategorized
- Things That Will Slow Probate Down
- Trustee & Executor Fees & Watergate
- The Valuation Game in Estates
- Ex’s, Divorce, and Probate
- Step-Parents and Probate … It’s Complicated
- Update on a Probate Case
- About ‘Simple’ Wills and Probate
- Estates and ‘What Did They Want?’
- Families, Wills, and Probate
- A Simple Will Doesn’t Mean a Simple Probate
- Two Children, Two Countries, One Will
- A Probate Story in the News
- Contracts, Steely Dan, and Probate
- Happy 2018! Here’s a Review of our 2017
- Relatives, Little House on the Prairie and Probate
- Probate & TV … Six Feet Under
- About Debt and Probate Court
- Picasso, a Tablecloth, and a Probate Valuation Problem
- Probate, Privacy, and Intent
- Probate and Valuation … not always simple
- About an Estate Doing Business During Probate
- The Worst Case Scenario (part one)
- Dead Hand, Estates, and Probate
- A Conservator, Probate, the Top 40, and Law Suits
- Parents, Promises and Agreements, and Probate
- Probate Posts, Halfway Through 2017
- Valuations in Estates – An Entertaining Example (it’s not as easy as it looks)
- When Probate Isn’t Simple
- Administrating Prince
- Inheritance, Step-Parents, and Motivation
- The Emotions of Estate Disputes
- Lawyers and Probate
- When a Dispute is About Money … it Rarely Is.
- About Signing
- Our 2017 Themes … and a Look Ahead
- Cousin Vinny and Wills
- The Problem With (Some) Gifts
- Probate, Wishes, and The Wild Things
- Simple Will, Simple Probate …Right?
- A Promise, a Family-Owned Business, and a Will Contest.
- Modern Families and Wills
- Estates and Divorce
- Closed Estates (or, What Eric Carmen, The Godfather, & Marilyn Monroe Have in Common)
- An Epidemic of Disinheriting
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