Sentences with phrase «made against an estate»

In July 2008 the Court of Appeal reversed that decision, essentially on the grounds that when a claim is made against an estate there are special requirements about the nature of the assurance.
This order, made pursuant to Rule 57 (3) of the Rules of Court, was made both against the estate and personally against the executor who had initiated the action.
It may seem tempting to declare bankruptcy to avoid the long arm of the FRO; however, your support arrears merely become a claim that is made against your estate, with the FRO dealing directly with the bankruptcy trustee like any other creditor.
In both situations, if the effect of the Will or the laws of intestacy is not to make reasonable financial provision for a potential claimant, then a claim can be made against the estate under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975.
There are a number of equitable claims that can be made against an estate to obtain remuneration or another benefit.
An unjust enrichment claim can be made against an estate on the basis that the deceased obtained an unfair benefit at the expense of the person making the claim (claimant).
In our previous blog we discussed the award of special costs made against an estate administrator who breached his duties.

Not exact matches

I can foresee a BACKLASH against Blue state capital making Red state real estate less affordable for locals.
If you received Medicaid, the state can make a claim against your estate for any money spent on your medical care after age 55.
If you want a hedge against inflation, it makes more sense to me to invest in real estate.
The significant and ongoing strengthening of the U.S. dollar against the Mexican peso continues to make the purchase of real estate very attractive in Mexico.
The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!
Jim McElwain, the well - paid Florida football coach who got fired amid a bad 2017 season after implying without evidence that people had made death threats against his players and family, just a few months after he'd been embroiled in a controversy over whether he'd humped a dead shark while naked (he apparently had not), took a loss on a real - estate deal.
Cuomo has made a few public appearances since U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara issued criminal complaints against nine people, including several close to Cuomo and two major upstate real estate developers.
Cuomo's made a few public appearances since U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara issued criminal complaints against nine people, including several close to Cuomo and two major upstate real estate developers.
Mr. Dorego recalled Mr. Skelos making a similar threat against Jim Whelan of Real Estate Board of New York — and a former Bloomberg administration official — because the industry trade group had hired a Democratic consultant.
Prosecutors made their closing arguments Monday in the public corruption case against Sheldon Silver, the former state Assembly speaker with extremely close ties to the real estate industry.
In 2o13, Schneiderman filed a $ 40 million fraud case against Trump on the grounds that he violated state education laws by making it seem like Trump University, his unlicensed real estate seminar program, was a real university.
A footnote in the federal corruption complaint against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos states the Republican during the 2012 election cycle directed Glenwood Management — the real estate industry's biggest user of the LLC loophole — to make $ 100,000 in LLC contributions to the Erie County Republicans, an organization Skelos was believed to have «substantial control» over.
While the real - estate market was collapsing, the husband of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand made a large number of bearish bets against housing stocks, an analysis of congressional disclosure reports shows.
He made hundreds of millions of dollars by speculating against the real estate market before it collapsed.
As state and city officials ramp up efforts against unscrupulous landlords, the Real Estate Board of New York is firing back against a bill that seeks to make it easier for tenants to file harassment claims against their landlords.
But Ms. Mark - Viverito was outside the Fifth Avenue Xanadu to protest the candidate's claim that an American judge's Mexican ancestry made him unfit to handle the fraud case against the mogul's real estate seminar, Trump University.
Cuomo's made a few public appearances since the US Attorney, Preet Bharara, issued criminal complaints against nine people, including several close to Cuomo and two major upstate real estate developers.
These factors contribute to make it rank well against its other estate cars.
The Commissioner of Competition, the federal agency tasked with advocating for the rights of Canadian consumers, won their abuse of dominance case against the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) after fighting for years to have sales data made accessible to the public.
Creditors only have a set period of time to make a claim against an estate.
You couldn't make a claim against the estate, as there can't be a paper trail.
In February, the Real Estate Council of British Columbia (RECBC), in response to allegations made against B.C.'s real estate industry, launched an independent advisory group to examine and make recommendations on bigger penalties and a simpler, better complaint prEstate Council of British Columbia (RECBC), in response to allegations made against B.C.'s real estate industry, launched an independent advisory group to examine and make recommendations on bigger penalties and a simpler, better complaint prestate industry, launched an independent advisory group to examine and make recommendations on bigger penalties and a simpler, better complaint process.
Another consideration is that if the deceased was married at the time of their death — to a step - parent, for example — that person may be entitled to an election under the Family Law Act to receive an equalization payment and make a potential claim against the estate.
These benefits should first be weighed against other factors (i.e. lack of simplicity, additional trading costs, US estate taxes, etc.) before making a final decision on the appropriate plan of action.
If you want a hedge against inflation, it makes more sense to me to invest in real estate.
Conventional Loans A conventional loan is a loan made against real estate as security that does not involving government participation in the form of insuring (FHA) or guaranteeing (VA) the loan.
Tish Murtha's striking image from Youth Unemployment in the West End of Newcastle (1980 — 81) depicts children playing and making their own fun against the bleak background of an abandoned housing estate.
He is also known for funding his real - estate investments in this neighbourhood partly through the artworks that he sells in galleries — notably vertical stripe paintings made from the wooden floorboards of school gym floors (sourced from condemned Chicago public schools) or canvas fire hoses (in reference to their brutal use against civil - rights protestors in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963) and also for his expressionist black paintings, abstractions made in tar in collaboration with his father, a retired roofer.
JACK TWORKOV: AGAINST EXTREMES, Five Decades of Painting is made possible by UBS and organized by Norte Maar in association with the Estate of Jack Tworkov.
Additionally, Mr Jordan's spouse or dependant children could make a claim under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 against the estate given that the 2012 will failed to make financial provision for them.
In Kouwenhoven Estate v. Kouwenhoven, 2001 B.C.S.C. 1402, Vickers J., an award of special costs was made against three sons who brought an action for fraud and undue influence against their deceased father's second wife.
«This judgment quite literally follows the person against whom it is made for life, surviving bankruptcy, and even extending beyond life to become a debt of the offender's estate,» Grace writes.
This means that all assets are frozen until the court has made a determination regarding the validity of any claims against the estate, including claims made by heirs.
When someone dies and a spouse / former spouse or partner / former partner wishes to make a claim against the estate, two different situations can arise.
Creditors, for example, get 6 months in which to make their claims against the estate and the executor has 3 months to make a decision to dispute a claim.
First, while the Court does reject the claim against the real estate lawyer on its merits, the Court acknowledges that the lawyer's fiduciary duties include the obligation to make full disclosure.
Our contentious probate specialists have the experience and expertise required to effectively make, defend, resolve and dispose of claims against the estates and trusts for whom we act.
If, at the time of his or her death, the testator was providing financial support to a dependant, and that dependant is not adequately provided for in the testator's will, the dependant may make a claim against the estate under a dependants» relief provision (in Ontario, these are found in the Succession Law Reform Act).
Scott Hay - Bartlem of Brisbane law firm Cooper Grace Ward says: «Applicants have long taken comfort from Singer v Berghouse (1994), in which the High Court ruled that costs orders will not be made against unsuccessful applicants but that everyone's costs will be paid from the estate — particularly if a cost order would have a detrimental effect on an applicant's financial position.»
No firms gain more by dragging out litigation than the big firms because they have the clients with the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars of capitalization who can afford, with the help of the taxpayer, to pay the astronomical fees they charge for as long as it takes to take on similar corporations similarly represented, or to squash the little guy (which is why FCT has McCarthy's on retainer and Stewart has Borden's on retainer — the given real estate file / title insurance claim is small potatoes but the title insurers make it dead obvious that if you sue them, you will up against a Big Firm.
He may have decided that it would be easier to let his first wife and children make a claim against his estate rather than talk to his wife about how he wanted to leave them something out of a sense of obligation.
The trustee's responsibilities include reviewing your petition to make sure it's complete and bringing actions against creditors or the debtor to recover property of the bankruptcy estate.
We therefore hold the record is insufficient for this court to make findings of fact as to whether any part of the temporary alimony paid should be offset against Wife's share of the marital estate.
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