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Can A Parent Disinherit a Child in Their Will?
Parent 1 is not pleased with the way that Child 2 is living and decides not to leave Child 2 anything in the will. Can Parent 1 disinherit Child 2?
01/05/2007 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Alabama | #129Can A Will Have Two Executors?
The parents of Child 1 and Child 2 changed their will to appoint Child 2 as executor, rather than Child 1. Child 1 is very upset. Can the parents name both Child 1 and Child 2 as excutors of the will?
01/05/2007 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Alabama | #128Can child have estate reopened if will was found at attorney that was to be executed?
The estate of Parent A has been closed via formal proceeding. Two years later, Child 2 of the decedent finds a will at the attorney's office devising all of Parent A's estate to him. The will was to be executed the week the decedent died. Can Child 2 contest the formally closed estate proceeding?
01/05/2007 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Alabama | #126If a spouse dies without leaving a will does the surviving spouse inherit all assets?
In Mississippi, if a spouse dies without leaving a will, does the surviving spouse inherit all assets of the deceased spouse?
01/04/2007 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Mississippi | #112Who is in charge of a Widower's estate when there is no will made before death?
Who is in charge of a Widower's estate when there is no will made before death, and when there are three adult children?
01/03/2007 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Arkansas | #76If I was jointly on my mother's bank accounts, do they pass to me now that she is deceased?
Father passed away Sept. 22, 2005. Mother then came and lived with me in October of 2005 and has lived with me ever since. She sold her house and ended up with almost $54,000. She gave each of the 3 siblings $10,000. In the meantime, when she came to Florida from New York to live with me, she told me that if anything ever happened to her, her money would be mine since the other...
01/03/2007 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Florida | #71Does Our Will Made in New York Cover our Property in Florida?
Can my husband and I write our own last will and testament in New York to cover property in the state of Florida?
01/03/2007 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: New York | #66How does my friend find out if her father or uncle left her anything in their will?
I am trying to find out if my friend's father and uncle left her anything. Both are deceased.
01/03/2007 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Virginia | #64Was my bequeath of 50,000.00 satisfied since my Father gave me $50,000 before he died?
If I was left $50,000 dollars in my Fathers Will but my siblings say that because my Father gave me $50,000.00 before he died that I am not entitled to another $50,000.00 as stated in his Will. The money he gave me was given after he made his Will. Can I get the money provided for in the Will? They say it was satisfied by the money he gave me. He lived in Florida.
02/08/2017 | Category: Wills and Es... » Ademption | State: Florida | #31773If a Guardian Sells Property left to a child in a Will does the child lose the property in Florida?
A Guardian has been appointed for my Father who is unable to care for his person or finances. He had made a Will before the guardian was appointed leaving me the farm. The Guardian sold the farm and now my Father has died. Did I just lose the farm even though it was Willed to me? We live in Florida.
02/08/2017 | Category: Wills and Es... » Ademption | State: Florida | #31770