Blog Posts in Wills

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...