Everyone wants to avoid probate proceedings if possible.

He said he heard about the death when he learned of probate proceedings.

At issue is where the probate proceedings should be held and who should be the will's executor.

This may or may not involve probate proceedings.

An extended search of these records resulted in a copy of the first baron's probate proceedings being found.

Ms. Gardner, her lawyer, said the asserts were not part of the probate proceedings and that the responses were proper.

Probate proceedings commonly dictated that land interests be divided equally among every eligible heir unless otherwise stated in a will.

During the probate proceedings, Smith declared bankruptcy in California and was awarded $474 million as a sanction for alleged misconduct.

He said that the courts had yet to determine the significance of domestic partnerships in probate proceedings but that a registered partnership could be useful under contract law.

Thompson pushed through major reforms in child support enforcement, simplified probate proceedings, and complete overhauls of statutes dealing with statutory county courts and municipal courts.

A 2009 documentary motion picture, also known as Shadow Billionaire about the probate proceedings and paternity suits following the death of DHL founder Larry Hillblom.

Virginia knew there had been many important probate proceedings and agreements, but after she had turned the key over to Julian Bannock, she had paid no more attention to the estate.

Probate proceedings would be the same in either Brooklyn or Mineola, but lawyers said the two bickering family groups felt strongly about setting the record straight on Charles Raffa's final legal residence.

The apparent reason for why they had never been found in previous searches was that they had been misfiled with a group of 1824 papers, possibly as a consequence of the first Baron's probate proceedings.

Many states differ as to their procedures concerning the interpretation and administration of trusts created during life (i.e., the inter vivos trust) versus those created in a will which are typically subject to jurisdiction in probate proceedings (the testamentary trust).

But the pre-argument scuffle outside the court building, in which several photographers were knocked down in their eagerness to get a picture of Anna Nicole Smith, was probably not ignited by any burning interest in the proper role of federal courts in state probate proceedings.

Place of Residence Disputed Mrs. Cuomo, her sister, Nancy Mazzola, and a brother, Joseph, say their father never wanted to "leave his beloved Brooklyn" and have sued here to block Sam Raffa as executor and move the probate proceedings to Brooklyn.

Lois, as president of the church, held much of the church's property in her name in accordance with the church's Constitution and By-laws, yet Howell was not at the probate proceedings to protect the church's property, which he could have, and should have, done if he were her lawful successor.