letters of administration

Can Minor Children Pick the Personal Representative of an Estate

David M. Goldman
August 25, 2011 13:56

In Florida Florida Statute 733.301(1)(b)(2) defines how a minor child can participate in a probate proceeding. Minor children are not able to participate directly, but can do so through a court appointed guardian over their property. In a recent Florida case ouf of the 2nd District of Florida the...

Letters of Administration Revisited

June 04, 2011 00:05

MUST READ: Letters of Administration (LOA’s) are court orders. They are issued as PART of a FORMAL ADMINISTRATION of the estate. You can’t just stroll into the courthouse and say, “I want a letter of administration”. The only way to receive LOA’s is to start formal...

I AM the Personal Representative…or am I?

September 08, 2010 11:31

You’ve got the original Last Will and Testament and it declares you as the Personal Representative (or Executor, Administrator). You were the “chosen one”, right? It says that so it must be so!  Right? Wrong. When a person drafts a Will, they are nominating someone to act as...

Floirda Probate and Letters of Administration

David M. Goldman
April 14, 2009 15:07

Often when someone dies, they have money in a bank account that does not have a joint owner or a payable on death designation (POD). These banks often tell family members that they need "Letters of Administration" to distribute the...Often when someone dies, they have money in a bank account that...

Contested Probate

Barry A. Knopf
January 02, 2007 20:22

When a loved one, friend, relative dies, a system must be in place to transfer the decedent's property to the intended beneficiaries in an orderly manner. That system is called probate and its specifics are generally different in each state....