Last week I had the chance to offer advice worth $600,000. That's what was at stake in claiming monies between a step-spouse and six children who had proof the stepmom had said she made no claim on it. I proposed a way for the family to avoid the...

Beware of your marital situation. What if you're 80, married 4 years to someone 75? If you die without a will, she gets 50%. You have 5 kids. Is that what you want? Could it be that you've now received a place where your competence to draft...

To give advice you need to learn. With knowledge comes the ability to provide answers with insight. Signed up to take MCLE Estate Planning Symposium and MCLE Basics Plus Estate Planning. Within those, all the probate variations are discussed...

Listing our cases shows the office is moving forward in its hope to create that ferris wheel of probate matters. The procedure involved can be formatted into a board game. We help you move your piece across. There's is no better advertising than a...

It is important to note the proliferation of Legal Zoom type sites, advocating forms for cheaper prices that you can use to draft your own will, trust, or whatever. Be careful. This office dealt with three people who had used them; and the instruments...

The docket number of a case tells you just how many cases of that variety have been filed within the year. It reaches to the thousands. Even with health bringing advancing age, a scan of the obituaries shows no one is guaranteed 63, 59, 48 or more...

The more you study probate administration, the more you see that it is an area of law that passes largely unnoticed. Unless there's a story in the paper about a big will contest, or regarding the estate of someone like Aaron Hernandez. But it...

One thing you want is an attorney who enjoys what they're doing. Honestly, after all the different types of law, after 40 years, that I've done, at this point for whatever reason, the only one I can say I find any enjoyment out of it is probate...

Probate administration can give you a PhD in soap opera. You see a 4 child family, fighting, and the various personalities you're going to have to deal with. The latest description I use is this: For a living, what I do is swallow grief, make...

In the field of probate administration, you have to be very careful. There are attorneys out there who churn cases for fees, create controversy to justify it, and act aggressively as both a part of strategy, and to help fund their cases. (e.g....