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Probate Law
A court procedure for settling the personal and business affairs of a decedent by formally proving the validity of a will and establishing the legal transfer of property to beneficiaries, or appointing an administrator and supervising the legal transfer of property to heirs if there is no valid will.
In laymen's terms it is the legal process of proving a will, appointing an executor, and settling an estate. The process of probate has come to be understood as the legal process whereby a deceased person's estate is administered and distributed.
For a will to be valid in most states, the will must be either in writing; signed by the decedent or in the decedent's name by some other individual in the decedent's conscious presence and by the decedent's direction; and signed by at least two people, each of whom signed within a reasonable time after that person witnessed either the signing of the will or the decedent's acknowledgment of that signature or acknowledgment of the will.
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Issues and Topics related to Probate Law include:
- Trusts
- Estate Planning
- Financial Advisors
- Probate Law
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