Disputes and Estate Litigation Attorney in Boston, Massachusetts
What types of probate issues lead to litigation?
What types of probate issues lead to litigation?
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the types of issues that lead to probate
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litigation are not dissimilar than those
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that lead to business litigation that is
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siblings or family members have
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obviously long relationships with each
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other and they believe that for whatever
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the reasons are they might be entitled
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to more than just their proportionate
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share that they may take under an estate
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or sometimes there’s a scenario where
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the decedent the person that died left
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this disproportionate amounts under
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their will or trust documents and that
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causes you know ears or beneficiaries to
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want to stake out what they believe is
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their just claim so in doing that they
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sometimes try to have influence on who
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the personal representative would be of
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the estate or the trustee of the trust
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and so there are there’s litigation
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around that that is who’s going to be
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the personal representative you know
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other times they try to challenge the
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amounts that were left to them and they
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try to claim there was some undue
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influence on the you know on the
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decedent so you know like anything
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people have a different have their own
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view about their contributions and their
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worth if you will to the person who
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passed away and that can lead to
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litigation
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Boston, MA commercial litigation attorney Robert R. Berluti talks about the common issues that lead to probate litigation.
