” Estate planning most often results in the use of revocable living trusts to avoid probate at death. Probate is a court proceeding required to prove the will valid before the executor may proceed to distribute assets to the named heirs. Probate can often be expensive and time-consuming, ...
When I represent someone who is about to become a Fiduciary (Executor or Administrator) of an Estate, I always talk about “how an Estate finishes”. Like many things in life, if you know where you are trying to go it is easier to make a good plan to get there. ...
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The Estate Administration and Probate Process In New York State, each county has a Surrogate’s Court which handles the probate of wills and the administration of estates. When a person dies with a will, the first step is for someone — usually the person named as the executor in the wil...
A client approaches you to represent him for the purchase of a home from an estate whose executor is undergoing an exhausting divorce proceeding. Will marital separation have any affect on the fulfillment of his executor responsibilities? On top of that, the property is a condominium unit from ...
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After Fred Pressman’s death, his will left his estate to his wife Phyllis, who was named the executor, and it excluded his son Bob. At work on a Viking Press book with Matthew Schneier that will celebrate Barneys’ 100-year-plus history, Gene Pressman declined to discuss the family dispu...
In 1930,Theresawas living in the Bronx with her husbandMax Alexander, who was in his own real estate business, and their two sons,Herbert(19) andAlbert(14) as well as Max’s sister Esther.1I will follow up with their lives after the 1930s in a later post. ...