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The Case for Abolishing Probate

By On June 20, 2011
Posted in: Law Reform

Probate, the court supervised process to distribute assets after a person’s death, is a legal relic — a holdover that traces its roots to feudal law. No other country still has an expensive, time-consuming probate system like ours. Even England, the source of our probate law, eliminated its probate court system in the 1920’s. But  Continue Reading »

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