White Pine Estate Lawyer, Michigan
Warning! No lawyers found in this specified area.
TIPS
Lawyer.com can help you easily and quickly find White Pine Estate Lawyers and White Pine Estate Law Firms. Refine your search by specific Estate practice areas such as Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills & Probate and Power of Attorney matters.
LEGAL TERMS
HEIR AT LAW
A person entitled to inherit property under intestate succession laws.
REMAINDERMAN
Someone who will inherit property in the future. For instance, if someone dies and leaves his home 'to Alma for life, and then to Barry,' Barry is a remainderma... (more...)
Someone who will inherit property in the future. For instance, if someone dies and leaves his home 'to Alma for life, and then to Barry,' Barry is a remainderman because he will inherit the home in the future, after Alma dies.
TRUSTEE
The person who manages assets owned by a trust under the terms of the trust document. A trustee's purpose is to safeguard the trust and distribute trust income ... (more...)
The person who manages assets owned by a trust under the terms of the trust document. A trustee's purpose is to safeguard the trust and distribute trust income or principal as directed in the trust document. With a simple probate-avoidance living trust, the person who creates the trust is also the trustee.
ANCILLARY PROBATE
A probate proceeding conducted in a different state from the one the deceased person resided in at the time of death. Usually, ancillary probate proceedings are... (more...)
A probate proceeding conducted in a different state from the one the deceased person resided in at the time of death. Usually, ancillary probate proceedings are necessary if the deceased person owned real estate in another state.
BEQUEATH
A legal term sometimes used in wills that means 'leave' -- for example, 'I bequeath my garden tools to my brother-in-law, Buster Jenkins.'
EXEMPTION TRUST
A bypass trust funded with an amount no larger than the personal federal estate tax exemption in the year of death. If the trust grantor leaves property worth m... (more...)
A bypass trust funded with an amount no larger than the personal federal estate tax exemption in the year of death. If the trust grantor leaves property worth more than that amount, it usually goes to the surviving spouse. The trust property passes free from estate tax because of the personal exemption, and the rest is shielded from tax under the surviving spouse's marital deduction.
PRETERMITTED HEIR
A child or spouse who is not mentioned in a will and whom the court believes was accidentally overlooked by the person who made the will. For example, a child b... (more...)
A child or spouse who is not mentioned in a will and whom the court believes was accidentally overlooked by the person who made the will. For example, a child born or adopted after the will is made may be deemed a pretermitted heir. If the court determines that an heir was accidentally omitted, that heir is entitled to receive the same share of the estate as she would have if the deceased had died without a will. A pretermitted heir is sometimes called an 'omitted heir.'
CURATOR
See conservator.
DEATH TAXES
Taxes levied at death, based on the value of property left behind. Federal death taxes are called estate taxes. Some states levy inheritance taxes on people who... (more...)
Taxes levied at death, based on the value of property left behind. Federal death taxes are called estate taxes. Some states levy inheritance taxes on people who inherit property.
SAMPLE LEGAL CASES
In re Kostin Estate
In Docket No. 272767, respondent Camille A. Kent appeals as of right the probate court's judgment
and order following a bench trial, interpreting a will and trust, determining heirs and
devisees, and determining title to property after decedent Juanita Kostin's death in 2004. ...
In re Nestorovski Estate
723 Payne, Broder & Fossee (by Andrew J. Broder) and Underwood & March (by Lauren M.
Underwood), Bingham Farms, for the petitioner. ... Kemp Klein Law Firm, PC (by Alan A. May
and Debra Nance), Troy, for the respondent. ... Before: SAAD, CJ, and BORRELLO and ...
In re Rudell Estate
During her lifetime, the decedent owned a certain parcel of residential real property located at
1170 Chesterfield in Birmingham, Michigan (the property). In 1982, the decedent properly transferred
ownership of the property to the trust. According to the complaint filed in this matter, the ...
FILTER BY:
- Free Consultation
- Male
- Female
- Suspended
PRACTICE AREAS
- Accident & Injury
- Bankruptcy & Debt
- Business
- Civil & Human Rights
- Consumer Rights
- Criminal
- Divorce & Family Law
- Employment
- Environmental Law
- Estate
- -Estate Planning
- -Gift Taxation
- -Trusts
- -Wills & Probate
- -Estate Administration
- -Living Wills
- -Wills
- -Power of Attorney
- Government
- Health Care
- Immigration
- Industry Specialties
- Intellectual Property
- International
- Lawsuit & Dispute
- Mass Torts
- Motor Vehicle
- Real Estate
- Tax
- Other