Austin Probate Lawyer

John and Jacqueline Motts were sentenced to 180 days in jail and lost their claim to a $400,000 inheritance after pleading guilty to exploitation of an elderly person.
After taking charge of his father’s finances, John Motts slipped into a pattern of lavish spending, emptying Clyde Motts’ bank account and failing to provide even enough money […]

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The estate tax relief instituted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act in 2001 may be coming to an end. Under the current system, estates are granted an automatic $2 million exemption from estate tax, a threshold which will increase to $3.5 million in 2009.
However, all that may soon change - the Economic […]

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A Connecticut probate judge sided with the widow of a man who disappeared while on a Mediterranean cruise, saying that the settlement she reached with the cruise line was reasonable and should not be overturned.
George A. Smith IV disappeared from a balcony while on a honeymoon cruise with his fiancee, Hagel Smith, in the Mediterranean […]

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