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Ohio Probate and Estate Litigation Articles

Browse articles from Heban, Murphree & Lewandowski, LLC on Ohio probate litigation, estate administration, inheritance disputes, will contests, fiduciary issues, and estate-planning topics. If you need legal help now, contact our office to discuss your situation directly.

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If you are dealing with a will contest, inheritance conflict, fiduciary issue, or estate administration problem, talk to HML Law directly.

November 16, 2019
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Ohio Probate Law: Everything You Need to Know

When someone dies without the right estate plan in place, their assets may enter the probate process. In Ohio, probate is a court-supervised legal process that ensures the deceased individual’s debts and taxes are properly paid and that assets are delivered to the designated people. This […]
April 15, 2019

HML Attorney to Host Ohio State Bar Association Webcast

At Heban, Murphree & Lewandowski, LLC our team of attorneys are respected knowledge leaders in their fields, and are frequently called upon to share their knowledge with others. On May 2, HML attorney John Lewandowski will be hosting an Ohio State Bar Association webcast entitled “Probate […]
January 7, 2019
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Probate Vs. Non-Probate Assets

When it comes to estate planning, the probate process is, perhaps, one of the most feared and most misunderstood parts of the process. The costs and the time frame of the probate court are often feared by those who are setting up their estate plans, causing […]
January 22, 2014

Probate and Elder Law Seminar

On December 6, 2013, Kevin Heban, Kent Murphree, and John Lewandowski spoke at the Toledo Bar Association’s annual Probate and Elder Law Seminar. The firm’s topic was “Pitfalls of probate avoidance techniques and estate litigation.” The attorneys of HML discussed the vast array of litigation commonly found […]
December 6, 2013

Breach of Fiduciary Duty

In the context of personal representatives (executors, administrators, guardians, and trustees), a fiduciary is an individual in whom another (the will-maker, trustor, court) has placed the utmost trust and confidence in to manage an estate or a trust. Fiduciary is from Latin fiducia, meaning “trust,” a […]
July 16, 2013

Heban, Murphree & Lewandowski, LLC, Successful In Ohio Supreme Court

The attorneys of Heban, Murphree & Lewandowski, LLC, successfully argued in the Ohio Supreme Court that a decree of foreclosure may not be unilaterally dismissed after the entry of a final judgment. In a case that reached the state’s highest court via a conflict amongst various […]