TRANSFER ON DEATH DEED AND WILL READ TOGETHER AS PROVING TESTATOR’S INTENT
The Appellant Court In The Matter of the Estate of Stites, 2020 OK CIV APP 51 held that when a
Category: Probate
COURT DEFINES JOINT TRUST
The Oklahoma Supreme Court in Matter of Estate of Williams, 2023 OK 103 defined a Trust as follows: “A trust,
APPELLANT COURT UPHOLDS RIGHT TO DISINHERIT A CHILD
The appellant court ruled in Matter of Estate of Jones, 2023 OK CIV APP 48 that a general reference to
DIED WITHOUT A WILL
A young divorced father with two minor daughters was traveling on the Turner Turnpike in 2015. Tradegy happened that day.
ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH
When someone is asleep at the switch something terrible happens. Usually a catastrophe. That is exactly what happened to this
A WILL CANNOT PROHIBIT THE SALE OF PROPERTY IN PERPETUITY
The recent Oklahoma case of In the Matter of the Estate of Stolba, 2019 OK CIV APP 43, involved a
HEIRS ACTING WITH MALICE
It sometimes happens that disappointed heirs will use the legal system for their own gain and sometimes vengeful purposes. If
PROTECTING THE MARITAL ELECTIVE SHARE THROUGH PROBATE
The public policy in Oklahoma is to protect the share of the estate that must be left to the surviving
Can you be disqualified to be a probate executor?
58 Oklahoma Statutes, Section 126 provides for the qualification of a probate executor: No person is competent to serve as
INHERITANCE FROM THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER BY ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN
OKLAHOMA IS STRICT. IN ORDER FOR A CHILD BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK TO INHERIT FROM THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER IT MUST