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
Tag: Probate Contests
DIED WITHOUT A WILL
A young divorced father with two minor daughters was traveling on the Turner Turnpike in 2015. Tradegy happened that day.
FRAUD AND UNDUE INFLUENCE MAKING A WILL
WILL CHALLENGED FOR FRAUD AND UNDUE INFLUENCE ¶11 The standard treatise on Oklahoma probate law (citing cases from other jurisdictions)
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
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
WILL CONTESTANT HAS BURDEN OF PERSUASION
Testamentary capacity, or the ability to make a will, exists when a person has, in a general way, the faculty
TRUST AND WILL NO CONTEST CLAUSES
The Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals further defined what legal actions violate a forfeiture clause in a Trust. In Calhoon
PROBATE CONTESTS: ADMISSION OF THE WILL
The reasons why someone can object to a will being admitted into probate are: 1. Testator’s lack of competency to