Estate planning can mean many things. But one aspect not spoken about quite as much as planning is what happens when a loved one dies and their will actually goes into effect.
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A one-time Jasper County judge is accused of multiple counts of attorney misconduct related to his representation of two elderly clients’ estates, potentially involving the misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of dollars to his law firm, an office employee and a family member after the clients died.
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A court hearing is scheduled Monday to consider a request from estate representative Julia Peters to seal photos, video and documents to protect the family’s constitutional right to privacy.
Family members of a famous 20th century Pentecostal pastor and evangelist did not have valid ownership claims for copyrights to some of the pastor’s photos, books and films, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in affirming a district court decision.
Regardless of the intent behind a notice that was served four days before a hearing — and one day before Christmas — the notice was not sufficient for an elderly Georgia resident to hire an attorney and travel to Indiana for a hearing on a disputed estate.
Estate planning seeks to provide for family members, protect assets, avoid probate, minimize tax consequences and reduce legal headaches. The same is typically true for intellectual property estate planning, but with a couple of pitfalls.
Over their lifetimes and at death, parents make gifts to children under the assumption that those gifts will be the property of that child for life, no matter what.
I think I’ll title this agreement something to the effect of “(Definitely-Not-A-Postnuptial) Agreement Waiving Statutory Rights in Spouse’s Estate.”
Even as the number of legal malpractice claims has remained relatively flat, the severity of those claims continues to climb, with costlier mistakes and social inflation serving as two key factors driving the rise.
The Medical-Legal Partnership at Eskenazi Health has been bringing health and legal professionals together since 2008 to help solve legal problems that affect health outcomes. One example of the partnership is an annual Wills and Advanced Care Planning Clinic.
It’s hard to say how popular electronic wills are in the state five years after they were initially legalized.
A widow trying to include her husband’s bank account and real estate in his estate despite the property being bequeathed to their son failed to find relief from the denial of her petition at the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
A trial court ruled correctly in granting a man’s petition to determine if he was an heir to the estate of a man who he claimed was his father, the Court of Appeals of Indiana affirmed Wednesday.
A woman who didn’t comply with the settlement agreement in her dissolution of marriage decree has failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana that a trial court erred in granting a motion to enforce settlement.
Two women who won attorney fees against their grandmother’s estate were hit with a reversal Tuesday from the Court of Appeals of Indiana.
A terminally ill firefighter’s marriage days before his death to a woman who was 36 years his junior and the beneficiary of his pension was upheld by the Court of Appeals of Indiana, which found no evidence to support his children’s contention that the nuptials should be annulled because their father’s mental capacity was impaired by pain medication.
A man who found himself in a dispute with his former business partner’s estate failed to convince the Court of Appeals of Indiana to overturn rulings favorable to the estate but not to him.
A lawsuit brought against the estate of a deceased woman by her stepchildren has be reinstated by the Court of Appeals of Indiana after it found the dismissal of their suit was wrongly evaluated under Trial Rule 12.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana on Tuesday reversed a decision finding that a woman is not an heir to her grandfather’s estate and should not inherit from him because she failed to provide sufficient evidence to prove her paternity.
Indiana Supreme Court justices reversed Friday in a dispute between two siblings over a provision in their late mother’s trust regarding her son, holding the provision was not an unlawful restraint on marriage.
The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed judgment for a Goshen woman whose request was granted for reformation of two property deeds to include a life estate that had been granted to her under prior contracts , despite opposition from a tenant on the property.
An Illinois woman who oversees the estate of a slain Terre Haute police officer’s son has been arrested for allegedly stealing more than $200,000 from the boy’s estate.