On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Dec 22, 2015 | Probate Litigation With the annual bombardment of “10 best” lists and the onslaught of the awards season, we thought it was time to come up with our own award. There is no cash prize, nor will anyone win tickets to a Bengals game or to the Hawaii Bowl […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Dec 2, 2015 | Probate Litigation A friend of ours tells us her parents have not locked their doors for decades. They don’t even know where the keys are. Why should they? They have never had a problem, they explain — after all, they live in a rural part of Ohio, where […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Nov 17, 2015 | Probate Litigation In our last post, we talked about marriage annulment. Is it possible to annul an adoption? This is a question that a Pennsylvania couple would like to have answered, though not because the adoption isn’t working out. The adoption was just a formality, a way to […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Nov 9, 2015 | Probate Litigation We are talking about a dispute between the children of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. over two of his most valued possessions: his traveling bible and his Nobel Peace Prize medal. In the early ’90s, King’s four children and his widow formed a corporation […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Oct 20, 2015 | Probate Litigation Litigation is not the only way to resolve a probate dispute, especially when family members are pitted against one another. Mediation is a less expensive and, in theory, a less contentious way to settle a matter, in part because there is no right or wrong answer. […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Oct 12, 2015 | Probate Litigation In a room full of guardians in the state of Ohio, a few things will be true of all of them. All have a fiduciary duty to their ward. All have been appointed by the probate court, and all answer to the court. There are some […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Oct 5, 2015 | Probate Litigation There were nearly 67,000 family farms in Ohio in 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That is 88.7 percent of all farm operations in the state at the time. The USDA reports, too, that the average principal farm operator in the state was just […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Oct 2, 2015 | Probate Litigation Estate planning can be a complicated matter when it comes to working around divorce and remarriage, as some of our readers may know personally. Obviously, those who are divorce and those preparing for remarriage should always go back over their estate planning documents and make any necessary […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Aug 28, 2015 | Probate Litigation We are wrapping up our discussion about health savings accounts. When we left off in our last post, we were talking about some of the advantages of HSAs and the differences between HSAs and other tax-advantaged programs. One of the key differences between a flexible spending […]

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On Behalf of Zigray Law Office, LLC | Aug 13, 2015 | Probate Litigation We are talking about the importance of keeping estate plans up-to-date. It’s an easy thing to forget — we don’t watch our wills and trusts the same way we do our IRAs and 401(k)s. A will may not be sensitive to market conditions or Federal Reserve […]

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