Article on Recent Events in Estate Planning

Robert L. Moshman, Esq. (Attorney, New York and New Jersey) recently published an article entitled, Midsummer’s Madness: Unsigned Wills, DOMA Uncertainties, Portability Regulations, and Florida’s New Statute for Former Spouses,The Estate Analyst (July 2012). The article discusses some of the recent developments in estate and probate law. The introduction to the article is provided below:

Here is a collection of interesting developments from across the nation that border, perhaps, on madness. Can a Will be probated if it has not been signed? Survey says No, of course not – unless you are in New Jersey and a court has a generous application of the Uniform Probate Code’s “oversight” provision. 

The issue also reviews a sequence of Federal Court decisions against the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, new portability regulations, a Florida statute affecting non-probate assets for divorced couples, and a family estate brawl that is destined to become legend.