Trusts and Estates Law columnists C. Raymond Radigan and Lois Bladykas discuss the filing of objections to probate, and explores discovery issues that may arise during a contested probate proceeding.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

We are increasingly seeing more disputes over the validity of marriages in probate litigation. A recurring fact pattern is that a romantic partner will attempt to orchestrate a marriage to the second ...

RICHMOND, R.I. — A contested probate case is raising questions about how a 90-year-old woman from Ohio became involuntarily committed to a Rhode Island assisted-living facility. The case of Rita Cole, ...

(MENAFN- Saving Advice) Blended families are now one of the fastest-growing sources of probate conflict in America, and many people do not realize how vulnerable their estate is until after someone ...

Tony Hsieh, the founder of Zappos, died in November 2020 at age 46 with an estimated $500 million fortune and no documented estate plan. He had no spouse and no children. His estate was on track to ...

The death of a loved one is a traumatic event that most of us will experience during our lives. After the grieving has taken place, the next question that may arise concerns whether the decedent ...