{"id":400,"date":"2018-03-01T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duneganlaw.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2018-06-27T01:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T01:29:56","slug":"what-is-probate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/2018\/03\/01\/what-is-probate\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Probate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probate is a court-supervised process for identifying and gathering the assets of a deceased person (decedent), paying the decedent\u2019s debts and distributing the decedent\u2019s assets to his or her beneficiaries. In general, the decedent\u2019s assets are used first to pay the cost of the probate proceeding, then are used to pay the decedent\u2019s outstanding debts, and the remainder is distributed to the decedent\u2019s beneficiaries. The Florida Probate Code is found in Chapters 731 through 735 of the Florida Statutes, and the rules governing Florida probate proceedings are found in the Florida Probate Rules, Part I and Part II (Rules 5.010-5.530).<\/p>\n<p>There are two types of probate administration under Florida law: formal administration and summary administration. There is also a non-court supervised administration proceeding called \u2018Disposition of Personal Property Without Administration.\u2019 This type of administration applies only in limited circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probate is a court-supervised process for identifying and gathering the assets of a deceased person (decedent), paying the decedent\u2019s debts and distributing the decedent\u2019s assets to his or her beneficiaries. In general, the decedent\u2019s assets are used first to pay the cost of the probate proceeding, then are used to pay the decedent\u2019s outstanding debts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}