How To Revoke Your Revocable Living Trust, Will or Power of Attorney
AUGUST 8, 2011 VOLUME 18 NUMBER 29 Last March we told you a good story about revocation of a living trust, though we cautioned you not to use the same method. A year before that we told you about another colorful character and how he revoked his will. Both of those court cases made us […]
How To Revoke Your Revocable Living Trust. Not.
MARCH 14, 2011 VOLUME 18 NUMBER 9 Let us be clear right up front. The California Court of Appeals ultimately agreed that Steven Wayne Stoker had successfully revoked a will favoring a former girlfriend. He also successfully revoked the trust created at the same time as that original will. In a sense, our headline is […]
In Rare Challenge, Court Finds Revocation of Will Effective
FEBRUARY 22, 2010 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 6 The popular conception of the probate process and the making of wills is colored by misinformation from a number of sources. Movies, books and plays provide much of the misunderstanding, building an expectation of “the reading of the will” in a lawyer’s office (it just doesn’t happen), regular […]