Questions about undue influence may arise once a case once someone passes away. One heir may allege that another used undue influence to have the elderly person alter their will. The basic premise of this argument is that the person didn’t want to write their will...
Month: April 2021
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As an executor, do you have to pay for your own lawyer?
There is so much involved in being an executor for someone's estate that it is essentially a full-time job. You may need to devote dozens of hours of your life to handling paperwork, making phone calls and resolving financial issues. In addition to all of that work,...
Decanting an irrevocable trust: What you should know
An irrevocable trust is forever, right? Well, not necessarily. When a trust no longer seems to serve the purposes for which it was intended or the laws have changed in ways that no longer work well with the terms of the trust, an old trust can sometimes be “decanted”...