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Conservator
Contested Probate
- What if Someone is Threatening to Contest the Will?
- What to Do When You Are Accused of Estate Mismanagement
- Should you sign an Acknowledgement of Service & Assent to Probate Instanter?
- Who should manage the estate?
- What happens when a a heir refuses to leave the estate home?
- Objection To A Petition For Year’s Support
- What Does Caveat Mean?
- What happens if you attempt to transfer assets without an executor?
- What does a no contest clause mean in a will?
- What does a caveat to probate mean? Is the will invalid?
- Early Estate Challenges: how to be ahead of the game?
- What Can You Do When a Power of Attorney Has Taken Estate Property?
- What to do when some heirs not included in probate?
- Common Estate Disputes: How They Affect The Georgia Probate Process
- How Probate Disputes Work in Georgia: The 5 Phases of Every Dispute
- What can you do when someone files a fraudulent will?
Creditors
Estate Administration
- Is Probating Both Parents’ Estates Necessary?
- Handling an Heir Who Refuses to Leave the Estate Home
- P.2 I don’t trust the Personal Representative. What are the common red flags that something may be wrong with how they are handling everything?
- What Being an Executor of an Estate Means
- Do I have to go through probate for my loved one’s estate?
- What Does It Mean to Be an Estate Administrator?
- Why is probate necessary to sell or transfer a home?
- What can you do when you think the Personal Representative has misappropriated estate assets?
- 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?
- Questions To Ask A Personal Representative
- How Does a Small Estate Affidavit Work in Georgia?
- 5 Tips on How to Discuss the Estate Over the Holidays
- What are Letters of Administration?
- 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
- When is it too late to probate an estate?
- What To Do When You Have Concerns That The Personal Representative May Be Mishandling The Estate?
- What To Do When You Get A Notice From The Probate Court?
- The Temporary Administrator says they get to keep everything! Is that true?
- If an estate is never opened, and heirs later die, do the surviving heirs inherit the entire estate?
- What happens when one beneficiary pays all of the expenses for an estate?
- What To Do When A Loved One Passes Away
- What Does An Executor Do?
- Selling a Deceased Parent’s Home
- What is a Petition For Year’s Support?
- Is the estate financially responsible for the home?
- What are my rights as a beneficiary to an estate?
- What Does A Will Do?
- What is a Probate Estate?
- What Is Probate?
- 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 are the expanded powers of the executor of a will?
- What basic powers does an executor of an estate have?
- What is a Probate Inventory in Georgia?
- How Does a Probate Bond Work In Georgia?
- What are NonProbate Assets in Georgia?
- Does Georgia Probate Law Say That You Must Pay The Hospital Bills Of a Spouse That Dies?
- What Assets Go Through Probate In Georgia?
- What assets are included in an estate in Georgia?
- Can a Probate Creditor Force the Deceased’s Family to Pay the Estate’s Bills after the Estate Has Been Closed?
- How long does probate take in Georgia?
- How Long Do You Have To Open An Estate
- How do Co-Executors Work?
- Does Power Of Attorney End At Death In Georgia?
- Probate Bonds, Inventories, & Powers
- Is it true that Georgia probate law says an executor gets paid by the estate? How much?
- What Is Probate Of A Will? Here’s Our Answer
- The Georgia Probate Process: Three Phases of an Estate
- Does a last will and testament matter? Part 2
- Does a last will and testament matter?
- Three Phases of a Georgia Estate
- A founder dies, but the business documents are not clear on who is the owner.
- When is real estate inherited by the family?
- Do you have to file for year’s support?
- THE ESTATE IS SPLIT HOW?!?
- Is Georgia Probate Necessary?
- A Durable Power of Attorney In Georgia Will Save a Lot of Heartache
- Why year’s support is a hidden tool surviving spouses should know about.
Estate Dispute
- Dealing with Probate Disputes: A Comprehensive Guide
- What to do when someone is taking control of the estate?
- Getting Information from a Personal Representative in Georgia
- What Can an Estate Creditor Do When The Executor Will Not Pay?
- What Is The Difference Between An Executor, Administrator, And Personal Representative
- 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?
- What To Do If An Executor Does Not Follow The Will
- How To Handle A Breach Of Power Of Attorney
- 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?
- What Is Year’s Support and How Can You Defeat It in Probate Court?
- Co-Executor Problems & How to Deal with Them
- You mean the spouse doesn’t get all of the property?
- How do I force someone to produce a will?
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Probate
- Part 4 – I don’t trust the Personal Representative. What are the common red flags that something may be wrong with how they are handling everything?
- What If Someone Is Stealing From the Estate?
- Part 3- I don’t trust the Personal Representative. What are the common red flags that something may be wrong with how they are handling everything?
- How Long Does the Probate Process Take in Georgia?
- How Are Financial Assets Handled In Probate?
- P.1 I don’t trust the Personal Representative. What are the common red flags that something may be wrong with how they are handling everything?
- What to Do When You Suspect Power of Attorney Abuse
- What Is the Probate Process in Georgia?
- Year’s Support and Its Benefits to a Surviving Spouse
- What if the Personal Representative Is Mishandling the Estate?
- 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?
- Probate vs. Non-probate Assets in Georgia
- What is Ancillary Probate?
- What are the inheritance rights of spouses in Georgia?
- Life Partners & Probate.
- What to do with a check made out to estate?
- What Does Testate Mean?
- What Does Intestate Mean?
- What to Do When the Will is Lost?
- How to Find a Will in a Safe Deposit Box?
- What does Joint Tenants With Rights of Survivorship mean?
- What does Tenants in Common mean?
- What can you do about Heir Property?
- How do you know if you will need to go through probate to handle real estate?
- How to Access the Deceased’s Bank Accounts?
- 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 are Letters Testamentary?
- 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?
- GPLG Stands Against Racism
- Handling Georgia Probate from Out of State
- How To Keep An Estate Peaceful
- What happens when an administrator goes rogue?
- Inheritance Rights After Divorce
- Can You Skip Probate If You Have A Will?
- What Is a Letter of Testamentary?
- Does real estate always go through probate?
- 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?
- Some Assets Don’t Go Through Probate
- Probate Law Changes A LOT From One State to Another
- Life Insurance in Georgia
Real Estate
- How Is Real Estate Handled In Probate?
- How Do You Probate Real Estate in Multiple States?
- Medicaid is threatening to place a lien on an estate home! What do I do?
- What happens when an heir is located outside US and wants to consent to a probate petition?
- Deceased’s Name on the Death Certificate Does Not Match the Name on Older Records?
Testament
Trust Administration
Trust Dispute
Uncategorized
- Undue Influence, Episode 3, the Season Finale
- Undue Influence, the Series, Episode 2
- Undue Influence, The Series
- The Valuation Game in Estates
- Ex’s, Divorce, and Probate
- So, You’re an Executor
- Step-Parents and Probate … It’s Complicated
- So, You’re an Executor
- Update on a Probate Case
- About ‘Simple’ Wills and Probate
- Estates and ‘What Did They Want?’
- Families, Wills, and Probate
- Two Year’s of Probate Posts
- A Simple Will Doesn’t Mean a Simple Probate
- Two Children, Two Countries, One Will
- About Being an Executor (the sequel).
- A Probate Story in the News
- Contracts, Steely Dan, and Probate
- Happy 2018! Here’s a Review of our 2017
- A Probate Court in Tennessee
- Relatives, Little House on the Prairie and Probate
- Probate & TV … Six Feet Under
- About Debt and Probate Court
- Being an Executor (what not to do…)
- Picasso, a Tablecloth, and a Probate Valuation Problem
- Probate, Privacy, and Intent
- Probate and Valuation … not always simple
- When it Works (probate, that is)
- Probate … 200 Years After the Fact
- Things That Will Slow Probate Down
- About an Estate Doing Business During Probate
- The Worst Case Scenario … (part 3)
- The Worst Case Scenario (part two)
- The Worst Case Scenario (part one)
- Dead Hand, Estates, and Probate
- A Conservator, Probate, the Top 40, and Law Suits
- About Being an Executor
- 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
- Untangling …
- Our 2017 Themes … and a Look Ahead
- We’ve Just Released a New Book …
- 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
- Law School, and Undue Influence -The Book
- ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Wills and Probate
- So, You’re an Executor or Trustee
- Estates and Divorce
- Dick Tracy’s Charity
- But, They Had a Lawyer
- Gifts, Generosity or Undue Influence?
- Trustees, Friends, and Business Partners
- Closed Estates (or, What Eric Carmen, The Godfather, & Marilyn Monroe Have in Common)
- An Epidemic of Disinheriting
- Trustee & Executor Fees & Watergate
- A Probate Fight, Thunder, & Creditors
- Undue Influence, the Series
- Movie Plots, the Disinherited, and the Rule Against Perpetuities
- A Codicil Too Far
When the Deceased did not leave a will
Wills
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