Our St. Paul, Minnesota readers may want to pay attention to the fact that the number of will contests around the country are increasing. This may be attributable to the fact that many people are living to an older age, meaning there is more likely to be a question...
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Month: November 2013
Warhol painting at center of celebrity probate litigation
Heirs and beneficiaries to deceased Minnesota residents can find themselves embroiled in a wide variety of probate and other disputes, particularly when the person who died was not clear about their estate plan or when a plan was made under unusual or suspicious...
Public to hear undue influence disagreement over inheritance
Like most court cases in Minnesota, probate proceedings, including legal disagreements over inheritances, are usually open to the public. Although special circumstances may in some cases result in probate disputes being heard in private, at lot of times it may in fact...
Dispute of charitable gift latest row in family probate fight
Minnesota residents may be interested to know, in what seems like an unending probate fight amongst the family of wealthy oil tycoon, what some styled as a simple announcement of a generous charitable gift of $3.4 million to the American Cancer Society spawned letters...
Belafonte sues MLK’s estate; claims right to sell artifacts
The famous singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, a friend of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and his family, has sued the estate of the Reverend King after the estate supposedly prevented Belafonte from selling off some historic artifacts that once...