Entries by Ed Cramer

Can a probate judge rule on non-probatable or trust assets based on a trustee filing for instructions?

Husband passed away with living trust and pour over will. He listed joint bank accounts with rights of survivorship as trust property but the trust general assignment specifically excludes those accounts held jointly with another. I’ve already moved the funds and closed the account as a joint account holder spouse. Can the beneficiaries or trustee file a petition to get half the accounts into the trust? My husband was told what to do before he died yet he did not and took actions with other accounts but not the bank account.

Distribution from inheritance of property probate court

Probate Court, my brother Richard was the individual administrator for probate court. We have signed the final accounting. He had individual administration. I would like to know when or how long I should still have to wait my understanding as individual administration you can distribute assets or do we have to wait for the courts to give a disbursement and distribution date For the inheritance?

Need help please?

Need to do a probate but my mom the living spouse cannot have the house in her name because of social security disability

How can I demonstrate to the courts the concealment of fraud related to the real estate transfers involving my late grandparent?

I understand that to bypass statutes of limitations on property transactions, specific criteria must be met, as courts often assume due diligence could uncover any fraud. However, in this case, the records show clear manipulation of property terms and descriptions. While referring to the same tracts of land, the descriptions are written differently, creating the illusion that the land is not the same.
My family were not residents of the area, and my elderly grandmother—undergoing chemotherapy at the time—handled her affairs privately. Until her recent passing, we were unaware of the sale of the land, making it impossible for us to uncover any potential fraud earlier.
How can I demonstrate that we had no knowledge of the transactions or intent to conceal, and what steps should I take to substantiate a legal claim of fraud in this situation?

Can a person who makes false accusations of pediphilia and slander just to smear one’s name, because they are just mad?

I was asked by my father in law, to keep my mother in law until her death back in 2016! In 2017 a plot of land was given to my wife for keeping and caring for her mother, by her mother. My wife’s sister moved into the old house on that property, and is trying to force us to sign it over to her! She has sense made up stories of infidelity of my wife, trying to tell my wife I have been married a number of times before, telling everyone around that I’m a pediphile, because I married my wife at the age of 17 and I was 32 at the request of both her parents! We were told and confirmed that so we couldn’t sell it, pay tax on it or that it couldn’t be foreclosed on that she and her husband buried his uncle on our property without my wife’s knowledge