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Texas Lawyer

Avoid These Estates Code Form Blunders

This past January, the Texas Probate Code was incorporated into the Estates Code and all forms were changed to reflect as much.
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Texas Lawyer

Estate Planning: 6 Key Areas to Protect Interests for Same-Sex Couples

Replicating the bundles of benefits included in marriage requires consideration for all aspects of the relationship, from division of possessions to death.
5 minute read

Law.com

Clippers Trust Precedents Leave Probate Attorneys Buzzing

Monday's tentative ruling in the battle over the Los Angeles Clippers centered on two arcane provisions of California probate law. Attorneys who specialize in trusts and estates said the precedents that resulted would prove useful even when billions of dollars aren't at stake.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Non-Traditional Natural Relatives in Regulated Housing

In their Rent Regulation column, Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., discuss the legal recognition of non-traditional relatives of the tenant of record for purposes of succession to a regulated tenancy.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

In the Matter of Antonio Onorato, PICS Case No. 14-1144 (C.P. Philadelphia July 1, 2014) Herron, J. (15 pages).

Accounting • Power of Attorney • Agent
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of Bigus

Court Disallows Certain Attorney Fees; Orders Repayment to Beneficiaries Plus Interest
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Declines to Enforce 'No Contest' Clause in Will

An upstate appellate court has refused to enforce a "no contest clause" in a will because doing so would subvert the overall intentions of the decedent.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Modell's Widow Can Proceed With Trustee Removal Action

The widow of the former half-owner of the Modell's Sporting Goods store chain may continue trying to have her brother-in-law and another man removed as trustees of trusts set up for her and her children upon her husband's 2001 death, a Manhattan surrogate has ruled.
5 minute read

Law.com

Judge Rules Against Sterling in Battle Over LA Clippers

A judge in Los Angeles on Monday ruled against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, allowing the $2 billion sale of the team negotiated by his wife to go through.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Matter of Romanello

Hearing Ordered to Clarify Ambiguity in Will, Ascertain Decedent's Intent Regarding SNT
2 minute read

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