When I am about to represent someone who is about to become a Fiduciary (Executor or Administrator) of an Estate, I find it helpful talk about “how an Estate finishes”. Like many things in life, if you know where you are trying to go it is easier to make a good plan to get there.
In this article we will review the inheritance rights of first cousins, first cousins once removed, and second cousins under New York law.
People often use the “cousin” terms loosely, as if they were interchangeable. For family and social purposes they are interchangeable, but legally they are decidedly NOT. This distinction arises in two particular
At some point everyone “thinks about making a Will”. Some turn the thought into action and do it. Some don’t.
As a lawyer I say everyone should act on this thought, but in reality the consequences of not acting may not be SO bad, IF the results would be relatively the same with or without
