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Many Minnesotans may remember legendary major league baseball player Ernie Banks, who died recently. Unfortunately for Banks' grieving family, however, it appears that a serious probate dispute may be rearing its ugly head.The widow of Ernie Banks recently filed a...
Last week's post discussed how a Minnesotan who has been wrongfully cut out of a will can challenge the document even if the will seems on the face to be legally and properly signed. While the post mentioned legal ways by which a person can challenge a will, the post...
Minnesota law specifies several formalities that must all be satisfied for a will to be deemed validly executed: the will must be written, it must be signed by the person making it or by a person legally authorized to act for that person, and it must be signed by two...
As this blog has mentioned in previous posts, many Minnesotans may want to pursue probate litigation and have good grounds for doing so but may, on the other hand, simply be unable to afford the often hefty cost of a protracted court battle.Fortunately, in some cases,...
As the readers of this blog know, we have posted many times on the perils of probate litigation but have also discussed how sometimes a dispute is simply unavoidable. Not surprisingly, though, many people over the years, including those in Minnesota, have tried ways...
As many residents of the Saint Paul area may already be aware, the heirs to the fortune and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., whom many Minnesotans will commemorate in the upcoming days, have been engaged on ongoing litigation over many aspects of the late civil...
If they elect to follow the trend of other wealthier Americans, those in Minnesota who are of great financial means may contemplate investing in a so-called "legacy home" both for themselves and their families. The idea of a legacy home involves purchasing a large and...
When Minnesota residents find themselves managing the estates of their deceased relatives and relations they can run into many obstacles. One issue that estate administrators often encounter is how to value the assets and liabilities that the estates possess. An...
Many Minnesotans who follow this blog have probably read about guardianships and conservatorships and the probate issues that can arise on account of them. However, other residents of Ramsey County might not have an exact idea of how a guardianship works.In Minnesota,...
Many of this blog's prior posts, when discussing noteworthy probate battles, report on various evidentiary disputes often brought to the forefront by the conflicting testimony of witnesses. Often times, a person faced with a will contest or other probate litigation...