Issues and Remedies in Inheritance Litigation 2025
Prevent family feuds
A parent passes away, and the funeral is barely over when the drama begins. One sibling is furious that another “cleaned out” a joint account. A surviving spouse and the adult children can’t agree on who gets the lake house. The trustee is caught in the middle, unsure of their duties or whether they’ll be personally liable for getting it wrong. These common scenarios often stem from confusion, not just conflict.
Issues and Remedies in Inheritance Litigation goes beyond the estate planning documents to help you untangle what happens after a client dies. Learn how to guide families through disputes and protect fiduciaries from legal missteps.
Prevent family feuds
A parent passes away, and the funeral is barely over when the drama begins. One sibling is furious that another “cleaned out” a joint account. A surviving spouse and the adult children can’t agree on who gets the lake house. The trustee is caught in the middle, unsure of their duties or whether they’ll be personally liable for getting it wrong. These common scenarios often stem from confusion, not just conflict.
Issues and Remedies in Inheritance Litigation goes beyond the estate planning documents to help you untangle what happens after a client dies. Learn how to guide families through disputes and protect fiduciaries from legal missteps.
You’ll gain practical insights into:
- Joint accounts – Learn what happens when accounts opened for convenience conflict with the estate plan and explore the implications of powers of attorney
- Personal liability – Discover how trustees can protect themselves through proper disclosures, shortened limitation periods, and strategic use of trust receipts and releases
- Property division – understand how to manage the emotional and legal complexities of dividing property between surviving spouses and children from prior marriages – especially under Wisconsin’s marital property system
Whether you’re representing a trustee, a beneficiary, or the estate, Issues and Remedies in Inheritance Litigation prepares you to step in before disputes turn into full-blown litigation.
Product details
- Explore strategies to reduce the risk of inheritance disputes before they escalate
- Learn how to challenge or defend disputed transfers from joint accounts
- Help trustees avoid personal liability with practical, proactive steps to ensure smooth distributions
- Gain tools to resolve property division conflicts in blended families
- Know how to counsel surviving spouses and adult children with competing interests
- Help clients protect their relationships and their legacies
- Estate planning lawyers
- Litigators
- Elder law practitioners
- General practitioners