{"id":410,"date":"2018-04-17T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duneganlaw.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2018-06-27T02:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T02:33:21","slug":"who-supervises-the-probate-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/2018\/04\/17\/who-supervises-the-probate-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Supervises The Probate Administration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A circuit court judge presides over probate proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The judge will rule on the validity of the decedent\u2019s will, or if the decedent died intestate, and will consider evidence to confirm the identities of the decedent\u2019s heirs as those who will receive the decedent\u2019s probate estate.<\/p>\n<p>If the decedent had a will that nominated a personal representative, the judge will also decide whether the person or institution nominated is qualified to serve in that position. If the nominated personal representative meets the statutory qualifications, the judge will issue \u2018Letters of Administration,\u2019 also referred to simply as \u201cletters.\u201d These \u201cletters\u201d are important evidence of the personal representative\u2019s authority to administer the decedent\u2019s probate estate.<\/p>\n<p>If any questions or disputes arise while administering the decedent\u2019s probate estate, the judge will hold a hearing as necessary to resolve the matter in question. The judge\u2019s decision will be set forth in a written direction called an \u2018order.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A circuit court judge presides over probate proceedings. The judge will rule on the validity of the decedent\u2019s will, or if the decedent died intestate, and will consider evidence to confirm the identities of the decedent\u2019s heirs as those who will receive the decedent\u2019s probate estate. If the decedent had a will that nominated a [&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\/410"}],"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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}