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Probate can be a good option for those who do not want to spend money during their lifetime on legal fees to prepare Trust documents.  Allowing an estate to go through probate would instead cause [...]

  Probate assets include assets for which the deceased person was the sole owner or jointly owned assets which lacked provisions for automatic succession of ownership at death.  Non-probate [...]

    Probate is a court-supervised process for identifying and gathering the assets of a deceased person, paying their debts, and distributing their assets to beneficiaries only after some of [...]

Attorney Babette Bach Esq. will be speaking at Inspired Living, a Sarasota memory care community, on August 7th, 2014 at 1:30pm. The topic is Probate Avoidance and the lecture will be open to the [...]

Question:  My father died shortly after he and my stepmother got divorced. I don’t think he updated his will after the divorce.  If his ex-wife was in the last will, does that mean she’ll inherit [...]

Question:     When is ancillary administration necessary for non-Florida residents who die owning real estate in Florida? What are the options for ancillary administration? Answer:    When a [...]

Question:     I was the guardian for a ward who has recently died.  Can I petition to open a probate proceeding and be appointed personal representative also? Answer:    Usually, the named [...]

Question:  If I am the personal representative for an estate in Florida, am I required to have an attorney for the probate administration in the Florida circuit court? Answer:    Florida law [...]

Question:     Where can I find trusted, general information on the probate process in Florida? Answer:    One obvious source of information on probate law topics in Florida is on the Bach & [...]

Question: I am the personal representative of an estate located outside of Florida.  The deceased died in Florida in an auto accident.  However, the deceased did not reside there or own any [...]