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  • Talking Estate Plans with Your Loved Ones This Holiday Season
    Talking Estate Plans with Your Loved Ones This Holiday Season

    Imagine a typical scene at your household during the holidays. It probably includes just about your entire family gathered around one table – two if you have young children in your family tree – ...

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  • Musician Lou Reed Leaves Estate to Wife and Sister
    Musician Lou Reed Leaves Estate to Wife and Sister

    American musician Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed, the front man for the 1960s band The Velvet Underground, left majority of his $15 million estate to his wife, Laurie Anderson. Reed, who underwent a liver ...

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  • No-Contest Clause
    No-Contest Clause

    A no-contest clause or an "in terrorem" clause is a provision in a testamentary instrument that is meant to discourage beneficiaries from disputing a will . This clause is typically used to threaten ...

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  • Part III - Contrary Substantial Evidence May Negate the Will Revocation Presumption
    Part III - Contrary Substantial Evidence May Negate the Will Revocation Presumption

    We continue our blog on the Estate of Trikha, which is about a father who executed a will three weeks before committing suicide. Satish Trikha's will made provisions for all his children, including ...

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  • Contrary Substantial Evidence Can Negate the Will Revocation Presumption
    Contrary Substantial Evidence Can Negate the Will Revocation Presumption

    There is a presumption under Probate Code section 6124 that the testator (a person who makes a will ) destroyed the will with the intent to revoke it where the will was last in the testator's ...

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  • Are You An Omitted or Pretermitted Heir?
    Are You An Omitted or Pretermitted Heir?

    A pretermitted heir is a person who would likely stand to inherit under a will or trust , except that the person who wrote the will (testator) or trust (settlor) did not know, or did not know of, the ...

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