{"id":404,"date":"2018-03-01T19:19:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duneganlaw.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2018-06-27T01:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T01:29:56","slug":"why-is-probate-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/2018\/03\/01\/why-is-probate-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Probate Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probate is necessary to pass ownership of the decedent\u2019s probate assets to the decedent\u2019s beneficiaries. If the decedent left a valid will, unless the will is admitted to probate in the court, it will be ineffective to pass ownership of probate assets to the decedent\u2019s beneficiaries. If the decedent had no will, probate is necessary to pass ownership of the decedent\u2019s probate assets to those persons who are to receive them under Florida law.<\/p>\n<p>Probate is also necessary to wind up the decedent\u2019s financial affairs. Administration of the decedent\u2019s estate ensures that the decedent\u2019s creditors are paid if certain procedures are correctly followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probate is necessary to pass ownership of the decedent\u2019s probate assets to the decedent\u2019s beneficiaries. If the decedent left a valid will, unless the will is admitted to probate in the court, it will be ineffective to pass ownership of probate assets to the decedent\u2019s beneficiaries. If the decedent had no will, probate is necessary [&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\/404"}],"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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}