Applying Proportionality to an Award of Costs in Estate Litigation
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Estate Litigation
Choose your Estate Battles Carefully
Not a happy day for respondent beneficiaries where a rectification application they opposed was granted and the court then ordered that they pay the costs of the applicant personally. Estate litigation is no cake walk…..
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Estate Litigation, WillsRectifying a Will based on a Testator’s True Intentions
Where the language of the Will is unequivocal and approved by the testator, a court will refuse to rectify a will to match the testator’s true intentions…..
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Contested wills, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Litigation, Estate Planning, WillsThe Trials and Tribulations of Choosing an Executor
Over the last two weeks, a number of blogs have addressed the issue of choosing an executor. Here is a litigator’s perspective (for better or worse).
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Estate Administration, Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Litigation, ExecutorsWelcome to All About Estates and our inaugural blog!!
Welcome to All About Estates and our inaugural blogg!! It is a diverse group of professionals with a wealth of knowledge and experience. All About Estates aims to provide you with a smorgasbord of ideas, trends, comments, and tidbits on interesting and diverse topics. Each weekday a different blogger from a different organization will write an entry…..
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Estate Administration and Probate Applications, Estate Litigation, Estate Planning, Family Conflict