Digital Assets in Estate Planning

By:  Chris Kelly

Times have changed.  In 2014, we now live in a fully digital world; computers are literally everywhere. Technology changes faster than we can keep up with, and we may not realize how that can affect our estate.

Twenty years ago, computers were giant machines kept in ventilated rooms; there was no Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, PayPal, or even online banking for that matter.

Today, individuals compile a significant amount of digital DNA over a lifetime.  There are 3 types of digital assets: personal, business/financial, and social media.

Below are examples of typical digital "assets" contained in an average modern person's legacy:

• Social media profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and a host of others
• Professional profiles [Linked In]
• Bank accounts, loan accounts, mortgage accounts
• Investment accounts such as eTrade or Ameritrade
• Uploaded photos
• Uploaded articles
• Education accounts, including alumni account profiles
• Gaming sites
• Email profiles and communications [Most people have at least two email accounts these days.]
• Digital media accounts, particularly streaming accounts such as Netflix or Hulu
• Cloud computing profiles or accounts
• On-line store accounts, particularly those with a social media angle such as iTunes and Amazon
• Music or movie files that were purchased and cloud-stored for on-demand downloading

So what happens to all of these digital assets -your electronic profile-  when you become incapacitated or pass away?

This is an interesting concept to think about, and one that has added a new twist to the estate planning industry. Many folks have online accounts with a plethora of websites such as PayPal, Ebay, Amazon, banks, credit unions, and on-line investment accounts.

 

While these electronic profiles have no value, often the accounts associated with them have significant funds on deposit.  Someone needs to be able to access these accounts in the event of a death or incapacity of the account holder.

One big red flag with this issue is Internet security. In order to protect these assets, someone has to have access to them. We are always told that our passwords should be updated frequently, and never to give them away.

So how do we safely give a spouse or family member access to these accounts without sacrificing Internet security?  It’s a tricky question to answer, but there are ways to provide this information without losing any security.

Often, a husband and wife share information, or have joint passwords or accounts. But in the event that they do not, or if someone does not have an individual they feel comfortable sharing this information with, there are websites that will assist.

There are Internet services where you can set up an account that will send you a message every month (or longer if you choose) asking you to confirm your password. By responding, you are confirming that you are still active in the account. If you don’t respond, the service will send a message to notify a person of your choice.

This notification may not give that person access to the account, but it will let them know that the account exists. This way, steps can be taken to make sure that the online accounts of the decedent do not just sit there languishing in cyber space for years.

Social media accounts can also come into play. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and other similar websites have arguably become the new way of communication in this day and age. Although monetary estate issues may not arise from social media, we do share photos and videos on these websites that a family may want to obtain after the death of a loved one.

Dealing with digital assets is just one example of many complex and different areas of estate planning that are probably not taken into consideration by most people. To make sure this, and all areas of your estate are properly protected, it is imperative to seek the assistance of an attorney.

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Proper Estate Planning is a Must

By:  Chris Kelly

We recently came across an article in New York’s Times Herald that highlighted the importance of a will, and how often the process of obtaining one is put on the back burner for many Americans. It is estimated that 65 percent of Americans do not have a will or basic estate planning documents in place. This is an alarming statistic, and the article touched on why the typical American chooses to put off such an important task.

   

Many individuals feel that a will or estate plan is only for the wealthy; this is simply not the case. A proper estate plan can ensure that the objects of your bounty are distributed to the right people.

This can save the headaches and confusion when an individual passes away, as well as help avoid potential feuds between family members.  No matter how big or small the estate, anyone with assets  needs to be protected; not just the wealthy.

Another common misconception is that an individual believes their finances are too meager for an estate plan.  Even the smallest of estates should be protected.  A proper estate plan will avoid the probate process which costs money and delays matters when most folks do not wish to be held up.

Furthermore, an estate plan is not all about money. If you have minor children, who will take care of them if a tragic event or unexpected death occurs? A guardian needs to be nominated for this possibility.

People do not like to think about the worst case scenario. An unexpected death can be very uncomfortable to plan for, and as a result many folks elect  to ignore it. This is a big contributing factor for  why so many Americans do not have a proper estate plan. The harsh reality is that these feelings need to be set aside in order to protect the best interests of your loved ones and your assets.

   

Procrastination. This seems to be the number one excuse for most people. They “haven’t had time to get to it”, or “it’s on the to-do list.” But what if that tragic event happens today? Sure, it’s morbid to think about, but the reality is everyone needs to be prepared for such a situation.

 

The only way to ensure that your possessions, and the well-being of your family is protected, is to be proactive and put a plan together sooner than later.

Putting together an estate plan can be very confusing, which is another reason some folks put off the task for another day that never comes.  Accordingly, it is best to seek the advice of an estate planning attorney.  

There are many different factors that need to be taken into consideration, and each estate is different. Our law firm offers free consultation discuss different estate plan options. 

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Young Adults and Powers of Attorney

By: Chris Kelly

Recently, we came across an article in a publication put out by the Troy-based Kemp Klein law firm addressing the importance of powers of attorney for young adults.  This is an issue that many people, particularly parents, may not think about.

Once your child turns 18, they are no longer considered a minor in Michigan. Many parents may not realize it, but this also means they no longer have the power to obtain medical information or manage assets and bank accounts of their children.

This can result in a very uneasy feeling for a lot of parents, especially those whose children are just about to head off to college and live on their own for the first time. Fortunately, there are steps that can be taken to alleviate this unwanted stress.

First, a parent should obtain a Durable Power of Attorney. In doing so, parents are able to make financial decisions that they would otherwise be prohibited from doing for their now-emancipated child.

In many cases, an 18 year old still lacks the maturity to make important financial decisions on their own. With a Durable Power of Attorney, parents can put their mind at ease knowing that they still have the ability to make such important decisions in the event of their child’s incapacity.

The next step is to obtain a Patient Advocate Designation.  This document designates an adult to manage the care and medical treatment decisions of the young adult.  Once a child reaches the majority age of 18, he or she can designate their parent to serve as a patient advocate. By doing so, the parents now have the ability to make sure that their child is making the best decisions for their healthcare and medical treatment in the event of an incapacity.

Like financial decisions, medical decisions can be very important and have a significant impact on an individual’s life. By keeping parents involved in this process, it not only helps the young adult, but also gives the parents peace of mind knowing that the best care and treatment will be provided should an incapacity arise unexpectedly.

Most people avoid thinking about this unpleasant topic; very few even know these types of documents and powers exist for young adults.  When parents and their young adult children educate themselves on these basic probate planning precautions, medical and financial disasters for the young adult can be avoided.

Such forethought can ease the transition of the young adult from life under the protective umbrella, to living on their own.

This is a basic overview of these types of fiduciary powers and estate planning documents.  Our law firm offers a free consultation to discuss these documents and the estate planning process. 

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Recently Deceased Celebrities Demonstrate Importance of Estate Planning

Paul Walker: Died too young, but with a trust.

Over the past few months, Paul Walker and Philip Seymour Hoffman both died in sudden and unexpected ways.  The latter, from an apparent overdose of heroin in January after decades of straight living; the former, ironically, in a flaming high-speed car crash last November.

At the time of his death, Walker had just turned 40; Hoffman was 46.  The untimeliness of the men's deaths left their respective movie projects incomplete.  Walker will appear posthumously in a futuristic thriller, Brick Mansions, set in Detroit, but his Fast and Furious sequel #7 scenes had not been completed at the time of his death. Hoffman will have to be written-out of the Hunger Games trilogy.

The untimeliness of the stars' deaths also highlights the importance of proper estate planning.  A comparison of the actors' estates -each worth well over $30 million- is instructive with regard to basic estate planning principles.

Last Will versus a Revocable Living Trust.
A proper estate plan, even for persons with a modest estate should include both a trust and what is known as a "pour over" will.  A trust is a private instrument while a will is a public instrument.  A trust, if funded properly, avoids a public probate process.

Walker had the foresight to execute a trust way back in 2001, when he was starting to hit it big in Hollywood in his break out role in the Fast and Furious series.  Hoffman, on the other hand, did not have a trust; merely a simple will.  Therefore, his entire estate will need to be probated because he died with a will and not a trust.  Hoffman's assets cannot be disbursed until they are probated; this process will cost money through probate and attorney fees, and will take time.

Funding the Trust.
When a trust is executed, it is simply a piece of paper unless properly funded.  Think of your trust as an empty bucket.  To fill that bucket with the assets from your estate, each asset must be re-titled in the name of your trust; otherwise, they will be probated in accord with your "pour-over" will; a document designed to catch any asset in your estate that may have been inadvertently left outside the trust.

An estate planning lawyer can help with timely funding your trust.  To be most effective, a trust should be fully funded during your life.

A warranty deed can be executed to transfer the ownership of your home, for example, from you as an individual, to you as the trustee of your revocable living trust.  Your financial advisor can assist you with re-titling your brokerage accounts into the trust with a medallion certificate.

Updating Your Estate Plan.
After important life-events, it is critical to update your estate plan.  For example, when you have additional children that were not born at the time you initially executed your estate plan, you should update.  Or when you become married, and your estate plan was executed when you were single.  The death of a spouse is another crucial time when an estate plan should be re-examined.

In Hoffman's case, his will was nearly a decade old and only referenced the oldest of his three children.  Similarly, in Walker's case, his trust was over a decade old.  Hoffman's oversight will now cause his oldest son to be treated differently than his two younger children to the extent that the oldest inherits his share through his mother, while the younger children will receive a direct inheritance.

Probably not what the actor intended; his younger children, still minors, take a direct inheritance while his oldest, also a minor, gets his money through his mother.

These are just some of the basics.  In order to properly plan your estate, you should make an appointment with an estate planning attorney.

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The Problem With Executing Two Successive Wills

Ms. Haguette Clark

...is that your family will fight over the money in your estate.  This appears to be happening right now in New York to the deceased multimillionairess Huguette Clark.

The problem with this estate arose, as is so often the case, toward the end of the decedent's life.  Ms. Clark, the daughter of copper magnate and Montana Senator, William Andrews Clark, and a private person to begin with, lived the last decades of her life in a New York hospital surrounded by her care-providers but largely estranged from her distant relatives.

In 2005, Clark executed two successive wills within six weeks.  The first will was garden-variety, leaving the bulk of her estimated $300 million dollar estate to her surviving albeit distant family members; a collection of grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews, all of whom apparently have standing as heirs-at-law in New York to challenge the probated will.

In the suspicious second will, hastily executed just 6-weeks after the first, Ms. Clark apparently had a sudden and massive change of heart, leaving the bulk of her estate to her lawyer, her accountant, and her care provider, and establishing a foundation for the arts with generous funding.  The second will contains the following language of disinheritance:

I intentionally make no provision in this may Last Will Testament for any members of my family, whether on my paternal or maternal side, having had minimal contacts with them over the years. The persons and institution named herein as beneficiaries of my Estate are the true objects of my bounty.

The collection of 20 distant relatives are not taking this second will sitting down; they have lawyered-up, Manhattan style.  Discovery in the case, largely consisting of desperate attempts by the family member litigants to prove their paper thin contacts with the wealthy decedent, has been completed and a jury is scheduled to be selected tomorrow.

Greed abounds on both sides of the caption in this case.  Did Ms. Clark really intend to disinherit her family members in favor of her lawyer and accountant?  What was the nature of the contact between Ms. Clark and her distant relatives?  Did she even know who they were?

The moral of this tale is to make a viable well-thought-out estate plan early in life.  As things in your life change, and perhaps you acquire a larger estate, amendments to your estate plan can be executed.

All too often, we see professionals take advantage of their elderly clients, putting themselves in a position of financial gain through undue influence.

Contact our law firm for a free estate planning consult and you can avoid the type of litigation that now threatens to define Ms. Clark's once proud legacy.

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Tony Soprano's Estate Plan

James Gandolfini

Actor James Gandolfini played New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano on the long-running HBO series The Sopranos.  I was a fan and thus, very disappointed at the news of his early demise.

In the stream of media obituaries that followed his death, it was no surprise to me that Gandolfini was considered an actor's actor; he studied his craft and brought great skill to his roles.

One piece that I encountered about the late actor, from the New York Daily News, drilled into his estate plan.  Apparently, Gandolfini's estate plan was a train wreck, disaster, and a nightmare on tax street, all rolled into one.

Apparently, the problem arises where he left 80% of his sizable estate [over $70 million dollars] to his sister and infant daughter, subjecting this portion of his estate to New York's 55% estate tax rate.  His widow was covered by a trust, but she is only slated to receive 20% of his estate; but she only taxes her twenty percent net of all estate taxes.

Perhaps the actor wanted it this way, but the estate could have been planned in such a way to avoid such steep estate taxes.  Tax and estate planning lawyers sometimes have clients that simply do not want their assets tied-up in complicated trusts or tax-avoidance schemes.

Really, it is the legislators and their penchant to create an endless supply of loopholes that is the real culprit in these cases, not the estate planning attorney.

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Google Rolls-Out Social Media & Digital Estate Plan

Truly, Google is everywhere.  Now, the Big Data company is looking to get into your [digital] estate plan; and with some good reason.

Right around tax-time last month, Google rolled out its "digital afterlife" feature -technically and officially known as the inactive account manager.  This tool allows Google users to provide Google with specific instructions about what to do with their Google data when they die.

Google has billed this feature as something to make it easier for a user or a user's personal representative to manage a person's personal data -one's "digital estate"- after death.  The inactive account manager was initially touted in the Google Public Policy Blog.

Nearly everyone has a Google account.  Many of us have developed complex electronic profiles over the past decade; some of those profiles even have value.

The law has not caught-up with our electronic profiles.  To date, only five states -Connecticut, Idaho, Rhode Island, Indiana, and Oklahoma have estate laws addressing digital assets.  Not to worry, however, as the Uniform Law Commission has set about drafting a proposed uniform digital estate law that will make it much easier for other states, including Michigan, to adopt the appropriate legislation.

As time marches on, Google's inactive account manager is banking on the specter that a majority of their user's will want to preserve, protect or direct their data profiles.  The inactive account manager is designed to aid in this task.

It is a very 21st Century concept.  We here at the electronic  probate attorney wonder what this account manager will look like in, say, 100-years from now.

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Heirs-at-Law Discovered via Facebook

Recently at our law firm, we have had a few cases where personal representatives and other fiduciaries have located heirs-at-law through Facebook.  In some of these cases, nothing was known about the heirs and resources were about to be expended with an expert skip-tracer.

Alert family members were tipped off and/or obtained information through their FB friends or "friends-of-friends".  In turn, this provided the probate lawyers of our firm with some basic contact information.

Under the applicable court rules, lawyers are still limited to "old school" methods of transmitting messages and documents; not even email is permissible under the court rules.  Informally,  however, modern practitioners are utilizing a variety of social media and data directories to locate heirs.

Once the interested parties are identified, the process of identifying the various claims and other issues of probate estate administration can commence.

Slowly, probate courts across the country are implementing an electronic infrastructure and promulgating electronic filing standards.  Both Wayne and Oakland County Probate Courts have made great strides in this area.

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Widows Experience High Foreclosure Rate

One of the lingering twists to the real estate recession of the past five-years is that widows over the age of 50 are experiencing drastically increased foreclosures according to the AARP.  This glitch in the foreclosure crisis arises due to the prevalence of mortgage notes obligating husbands-only; when they die, their widows often do not qualify to refinance the mortgage note.  

According to the AARP study, the mortgage foreclosure rate for persons over 50 rose by 23% between 2007 and 2011.  The causes are believed to be the surviving spouse's fixed income, the increased cost of needed medication, and the small print on the couple's mortgage note.

Our rapidly aging population is also to blame.  This demographic has produced a disturbing Catch-22: to stay in the home, the widow must take over the mortgage payments; but in order to do that, the payments must be up-to-date.  In many cases where the wage-earning husband dies, especially following a long illness, the unsuspecting widow finds that the mortgage is already significantly behind.

Add to his dynamic the fact that, in general, elderly Americans are saving less and spending more.  Our elders between the ages of 65 to 74 are becoming indebted at the fastest rate of any other age-group.

In the case of a widow in poor health, the application process alone can be hazardous to one's health.  As veterans of the process can attest, the process features unanswered phone calls, and repeated requests by loan servicers for the same documentation.

The lesson implied in this ominous trend is to get your house in order, literally, prior to the death of one of the spouses.  This means that a married couple should make every attempt to place both spouses on the mortgage note so that refinancing the marital home is not necessary following the death of one spouse.

Another "best practice" is to have each spouse participate in paying the bills and managing the mortgage when one of the partners attains age 50.  Traditionally, one spouse takes primary responsibility over the bill-paying tasks.  Familiarity with the process will reduce stress levels when, for example, a widow finds herself as the only one left to keep the mortgage on track.

Finally, having an executed estate plan will reduce stress when a spouse dies.  Consult with an estate planning attorney in your  community to learn more about your options.  Good luck out there; if you don't look out for yourself, no one else will.

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Your Digital Estate Plan

Do you ever wonder what becomes of a deceased person's Facebook profile?

Increasingly, folks are compiling several digital profiles on the ever-popular social media sites now embedded into the Internet.  Many of us have thoroughly fleshed-out these electronic profiles.

Well, what happens to your digital persona when you die?  How do we assist our family members with the dismantling of these often extensive robust electronic profiles?

Below are examples of typical digital "assets" contained in an average modern person's legacy:

• Social media profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and a host of others
• Professional profiles [I maintain at least a half dozen and counting]
• Bank accounts, loan accounts, mortgage accounts
• Investment accounts such as eTrade or Ameritrade
• Uploaded photos
• Uploaded articles
• Education accounts, including alumni account profiles
• Gaming sites
• Email profiles and communications [Most people have at least two email accounts these days.]
• Digital media accounts
• Cloud computing profiles or accounts
• On-line store accounts, particularly those with a social media angle such as iTunes and Amazon

There are other examples, to be sure.  Any site that you've had to log-on to, create a profile, and post content, or place orders, is a component of your digital inventory.  That's a lot to keep track of...

If your situation is typical, you have some similar passwords, or a theme running through your accounts, but due to the specifications of the particular site, most of your usernames and passwords are different.  Also, you probably maintain a list of your names and passwords somewhere; probably on your computer.

There are, of course, some web-based products and services that assist with the management of your digital profile:

• roboform.com
• stickypassword.com
• datainherit.com

The first step in managing your digital legacy is to list all of your on-line "assets" and list the usernames and passwords associated with those accounts.  You will be saving a family member or friend untold hours on the phone, or on the computer, when they try to figure it out in your absence.

Once you have compiled your all-important digital inventory, the next step is to reference this list and attach it to a power of attorney document.  This will allow your attorney-in-fact to manage your accounts in the event of your temporary absence or incapacity.  

Ditto to your will; include an instructional paragraph referencing and attaching your digital inventory.

If no instructions are provided, Michigan does not yet have laws governing the posthumous management of a person's on-line "assets".  So far, only Oklahoma and Idaho have such laws, with Nebraska not far behind.  [Where is California in all this?]

Therefore, if you die "digitally intestate", what happens to your digital profile is up to the particular service provider.  For example, Facebook has long taken the position, based on its robust operating agreement that you agreed to when creating your account, that FB owns all of your posts and content.  When you die on Facebook's watch, they memorialize your account; restricting views and posts to friends and family.  Also, the account is closed if requested by your next-of-kin.  

Some folks, however, do not have any next-of-kin.  What then?

Here are some options for the proactive among our readers.  Some posthumous services will send an email composed by you, or by your designated personal representative, to a designated list of contacts.  Here is a sample list of such services:

• Online-Legacy.com
• mywonderfulllife.com
• ownlegacy.com

Call it another characteristic of our modern life; once we are gone, our digital profile lives on for a time.  In this fast-paced era, it's amazing how fast such a profile will become outdated.

Taking the right steps will allow you to manage that profile from the grave...

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Yes, You Can Create a Trust for Your Pets

Recently, one of our estate planning clients wanted us to set aside a significant portion of her estate to care for her beloved pets; all four of them.  So we arranged for a trust to be set up for the specific purpose of caring for her pampered pets.

This arrangement, more common than you think, is the subject of a new book titled, "Fat Cats & Lucky Dogs", co-authored by Grand Haven, Michigan native Gerry Beyer; now a law professor at Texas Tech School of Law.

We would emphasize the sub-title on Professor Beyer's book: "How to Leave (Some of) Your Estate to Your Pet".

In Michigan, decedents can also leave a portion of their estate to pets in a will.  This concept was challenged by the family members of a decedent who left $9 million to her cat.  The case originated in the Wayne County Probate Court; the probate judge assigned to the case upheld the decedent's wishes.  His decision was affirmed on appeal.

Beyer's book walks you through the establishment of a trust with the assistance of an attorney; contains sample trust and will provisions; surveys state pet trust statutes (there are none in Michigan); references "after-death" pet services; and animal retirement homes.

If you are this kind of person, hit the web link to the author's book above for more information.

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Estate Planning Does Not Have to Cause Anxiety

As noted in a recent WSJ article, "estate planning" seems to cause anxiety in many elderly people.  It does not need to be so.

Many people are put off by the time it takes to gather the information necessary to putting together a good estate plan; it is akin to gathering information to complete a refinance transaction on your house.  Also, there is the expense of the estate planning lawyer.

In general, people do not like to contemplate things like the death of a loved one; or incapacity, or mental illness.  Also, estate planning often involves awkward conversations with family members; some may be selected, or nominated to serve in a fiduciary capacity while others are not.

These factors should not discourage you, however, from putting together some plan.  When you make an estate plan of any kind, even one from a document package you find on the Internet, you are at least retaining some control over the process.

Just about anything is better than no plan at all.  Dying intestate places your estate directly into the probate process, with your assets devolving to your "heirs at law" or worse, escheating to the state if you have no heirs.

It is never too early, or too late to seek out advice for the development of your estate plan.  Call us for a free legal consultation.

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Huge Claims Resolved in Davidson Estate

When you die a billionaire, your estate is often going to be heavily litigated before a certificate of completion is filed with the probate court.  Particularly when your widow (and business partner) is not the mother of your children.

Another ingredient for guaranteed protracted probate litigation: last minute changes to your will.

Local billionaire Bill Davidson's estate had all of these characteristics.  After his death in March 2009, Davidson's estate was estimated at well-over a billion dollars.

Davidson parlayed his fortune from Guardian Industries, a glass company, into a sports empire that once included world-champions Detroit Pistons and Detroit Shock, as well as the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey team, and the Detroit Fury arena football team.

The estate and the $20 million claims filed against it, first denied but then eventually settled, are all on file with the Oakland County Probate Court.  The terms of the settlement, however, are not.

Apparently, the problem arose when Davidson made changes to his 19-page will during the last week of his life.  Those testamentary amendments broke-up Davidson's estate into three separate trusts and named his wife, a son and a daughter, all Bloomfield Hills residents, as the sole beneficiaries.

The probate litigants pitted Davidson's spouse and owner of the Detroit Pistons, Karen Davidson, against his son and daughter.   The dispute involved claims against the estate filed by Milestones Upgrading & Industries Co., an Israeli company, and Big Ben Investments; companies with which Mr. Davidson had a long business-relationship.

The claims filed by Milestones and Big Ben alleged that Mr. Davidson made up to $20 million in investment pledges to the companies.  Karen Davidson, listed as a manager for Big Ben, wanted her husband's estate to honor the pledges, saying they were consistent with Mr. Davidson's testamentary wishes.

In collateral "breach of contract" litigation assigned to Oakland Circuit Judge Nanci Grant, the corporate plaintiffs also privately settled the circuit court disputes via stipulated orders of dismissal in July.

While these large probate and circuit court disputes were being negotiated and resolved, you may recall rumors that Karen Davidson was shopping the Detroit Pistons.  Fortunately, the Davidson Estate has enough money to resolve the expensive claims made against it and to apparently keep the Pistons right where they are; in the suburbs of the "D".

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Student Blogger(s) Wanted to Develop Probate Law Blog

Our firm seeks to add some interest to the important but oft-dry subject of probate law, probate litigation, and estate planning. We are developing this law blog, the electronic probate attorney, to keep our current probate and estate planning clients informed of developments and to attract new clients. If you are a law student or a paralegal interested in this area, and would like to be on the ground floor of an amazing marketing project, then contact our firm to discuss opportunities.

Excellent computer skills are required along with a creative and positive personality.