joke that probate is a lawsuit you bring against your

own estate.  What probate involves is when

a person dies and they have a Will based

plan the will has to be deposited with

the clerk of the court and it becomes

public record

and everybody who is interested in the

estate whether it’s a beneficiary

whether it’s a family member who thinks

they should be a beneficiary or whether

it’s a creditor they all have an

opportunity to challenge the will and a

judge has to review it and approve the

will

then we have to file inventories to let

everybody know what’s in the estate we

have to publish notice to creditors we

have to send certified mail notices to

make sure that anybody who the estate

might owe money has an opportunity to

file a claim we have to do our tax

returns and then ultimately when we

complete all our tasks we get to close

the estate the issue is it usually takes

nine to ten months or more to go through

the entire process and there’s

substantial costs to a probate foreign