Protecting Your Estate Plan from Challenges: No-Contest Clause Explained
Sibling rivalry is a tale as old as time. In probate litigation, however, these emotional battles can eat away at a family’s precious legacy. That’s why a good estate plan needs to go beyond tax and investment planning...more
The legal saga surrounding the estate of Dr. Laura Dean Head—a respected professor at San Francisco State University—is a powerful example of how undue influence and disinheritance can put an estate at risk and take years to...more
Texas courts narrowly construe no-contest clauses. In Di Portanova v. Monroe, grandparents set up eight trusts for a grandchild that had a mental disability. No. 01-20-01019-CV, 2012 Tex. App. LEXIS 9859 (Tex. App.—Houston...more