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When someone dies their estate the most valuable component of their estate often consists of land, also called real property. Due to our familiarity with the legal environment related to land use and property, our attorneys have developed experience in handing estate issues. We practice this area of law primarily in Forsyth County Probate Court and Forsyth County Superior Court. These disputes can arise in a number of settings. The type of disputes we handle relate to the following subjects: Probate of Wills, Estate Administration Where There is No Will, Warranty Deeds, Quitclaim Deeds, Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship, Life Estates, Divorce or Separation Issues Related to Death and Property, Assertion of Claims against Property of Estates, Assertion of Right of Way Easements and Licenses, Zoning Issues, and Real Estate Brokers and Market Valuation Issues |
For example, this firm has represented estates and executors where an adjacent land owner has made a claim that affects the boundaries or access to an estate property.
We have also represented executors where beneficiaries of an estate are accused of having stolen property or money from an estate or where beneficiaries that are family members have mistreated an elderly person before her death.
This firm has also been involved in litigating issues of title to land being passed through and estate and whether a decedent had mental capacity to make a deed of property prior to death.
Disputes often arise where one family member is accused of having exercised undue influence over a decedent prior to his or her death thereby causing the decedent to sign a deed to a property to the family member. Such actions can deprive the estate of ownership of the property. A dispute can arise where the action deprives other family members of the property that they would have inherited through the estate.
