No, you cannot challenge a life estate. It is a right in property. They either have it or they don't.
No. The owner of the property has the right to grant a life estate.
If you have legal "standing" to challenge the POA, then you should file a motion with the Family Division of court requesting a hearing on the fact that the daughter is 'wasting' your stepmother's estate.
I am the administrator of my fathers estate does my brother have equale power and percentage of estate?
A life estate is granted by the owner of the property. You have no right to challenge their right to control their own property.
Write a will! That is the way to appoint someone executor of the estate.
Easements are rights to use someone else's property for another purpose. Easements are generally found in real estate law.
Another name for an estate of inheritance is FEE SIMPLE. In contrast, a life estate is not an estate of inheritance because it does not pass to one's heirs at death.
Yes. You can appoint the same person as your executor in your will even if that person has been appointed by someone else as their executor in their will.
I will assume you mean to ask why a testator would leave a life estate to another person in the testator's will.A testator provides another person with a life estate to make certain that person will not be "put out" by the people who inherit the property. They want to make certain the life estate holder will have the use and possession of a home for the duration of their natural life. It is a way of still taking care of someone you love even after you have died while still preserving the property for your heirs. Upon the death of the life tenant the heirs, or remainders, own the property free and clear of the life estate.
Someone who handles the estate for payment of the decedent's debts and distribution to the heirs.
The debts of the deceased are the responsibility of the estate. The estate would pay the cost of an attorney. If the estate has no assets, the attorney would require someone to pay them for their services.
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