Most of these United States use post-mortem probate. A person’s will is submitted for probate after his or her death. The idea is that after the testator is dead, the will is read and the testator’s estate is distributed in accordance with his wishes.
I always thought there should be some procedure to validate a
While much is made of the importance of blogging for today’s lawyers, here is a sobering note in counterpoint.
Brian Leiter, Why Blogs Are Bad for Legal Scholarship, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 53 (2006), http://www.thepocketpart.org/2006/09/20/leiter.html.
Excerpt:
"Blogs, like markets, are hostage to the ignorance and irrationality of their most visible proprietors, as
Tracey Rich writes for the National Law Journal about using a company’s website against them. Check out: Find Evidence on Your Opponent’s Web Site. Rich reports:
"Browsing a party’s Web site will only show the information that the Web site owner currently wants visitors to see. Sometimes, the most valuable information about an opposing
Winning your estate planning malpractice case depends not only on your skills as a litigator but also on a thorough understanding of the substantive law of the case. You need to know what is at the "top of mind" of lawyers who practice in the area. Combine that with the explosion of information available on