By Peter Dolan, Chair of ELM’s Trust and Estate Litigation Practice For years, your loved one said how the estate would be divided. Then, after death, a new Will suddenly appears. One person receives nearly everything. A spouse is disinherited. Longstanding beneficiaries are removed. And the person who benefits from the change may have helped […]
By Peter Dolan, Chair of ELM’s Trust and Estate Litigation Practice Rights and Remedies for Disinherited Spouses Under Washington Law You were married for years. Maybe decades. You built a life together. You planned for retirement together. You assumed that after one spouse passed away, the other would be financially secure. Then your spouse dies […]
By Peter Dolan, Chair of ELM’s Trust and Estate Litigation Practice Warning Signs of Fiduciary Misconduct Under Washington Law Your parent dies. Your sibling is named trustee or personal representative. At first, everything seems normal. Then questions start going unanswered. Financial information becomes difficult to obtain. The estate remains open month after month. Legal fees […]
Facing a Washington Committed Intimate Relationship Claim? How We Can Help Written by Peter Dolan, Chair of ELM’s Trust and Estate Litigation Practice A loved one dies. Their family expects the estate to pass according to the Will or the laws of inheritance. Then an unmarried romantic partner appears and claims a right to a […]
