Elective Share Spouses Estates NC Attorney
Case of Elective share. There’s one person in NC that can’t be disinherited from an estate. It’s the dead person’s spouse. If a spouse is written out of a will, then that spouse has options. Kirk Sanders, Estate Litigation Attorney, has handled these types of cases. This also applies if the surviving spouse is not given enough by the dead spouse’s estate. One situation included a stipulation in the will that the surviving spouse received a life estate in a piece of property on the condition that he not co-habitate with other women. Our firm’s estate litigation attorneys were able...
Read MoreEstates Selling Property to Pay Debts
Issue: Estate without enough cash to pay debts of the estate. What happens: Petition to sell real or personal property Occasionally an estate has to sell assets of the estate to pay debts and expenses. Normally, this is not a problem if there are heirs to share and share alike. But what happens if the executor or public administrator wants to sell a specific assets, such as real property, that would be inherited by Beneficiary X, which in turn benefits the remaining heirs as a result. This happens. Kirk Sanders has contested cases in this situation. First prong of the attack was the actual...
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