probate
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- noun
- /ˈproʊbeɪt/
- Formal
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proceso de sucesión
- His estate has to go through probate, it's a state process.
- probate court
- probate records
- probate judge
Your house is going to go through probate to pass ownership.
- Your house is going to go through probate to pass ownership.
- And then as far as administration goes, you know, the administration of your wills involves probate.
- Most commonly this can be a state and probate issues.
- Like, so really it kind of what it boils down to is like will probate assets trust non probate assets.
Examples
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You may not have to go through probate if your dad has a small estate.
Blog text (19) -
The sole purpose of a living trust or a family trust is to avoid probate when you die.
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We're at the end of the probate process and we're trying to figure out what we should do with the house.
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This is a probate deal, which means somebody died.
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The City Probate Office asked me to forward this to you.
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Your house is going to go through probate to pass ownership.
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We could clear it all up in probate.
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It's all that probate stuff that stops us from getting on with our jobs.
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My father had left the will mired in probate and left my mother as executor of the estate.
Fiction book (2001) -
After his death, the family needed to go through probate to settle his estate and ensure the will was valid.
Compounds
- Formal
A court paper that confirms a dead person's wishes and lets named people manage their money and things
Surface Forms
Etymology
Probate comes from the Latin probare, 'to test' or 'to prove', and is related to the English words prove and proof. The noun probate is the legal process of 'proving' a will and handling the person's property after they die.