FAQs on Probate Cases

Video Transcript:

I won’t say that we’ve seen a big increase just in terms of filings, but we have seen an increase at the firm and I think, frankly, it has to do with the fact that two of the counties better probate lawyers have become judges so they’ve gone to the bench. And we’re a relatively small county there aren’t a lot of firms that do probate disputes. Most of the disputes that we handle here in the office are the same kinds of business disputes that we handle outside of probate cases. So when family has a business and the patriarch or matriarch of the family passes away and that business is there and has to be passed on to the children, disputes sometimes arises to what’s going to happen. Is the business going to be sold or are some of the children going to take the business over and run it? We see a lot of that kind of litigation now.