No address and no names — the situation is the point.
Six heirs, eight months, and then a second probate
Buena Vista
This estate had six heirs. Getting six people to agree on something, sign it, and send it back took eight months on its own — and nobody involved was being difficult. That is simply how long it takes when a family is spread across several states and everyone has a life running alongside it.
Then, partway through, one of the heirs died.
His share now had to pass to his own children, who lived in Alabama, which meant opening a second probate there before anybody could close on a house in Miami. Estates collapse at moments like that. Meanwhile the property taxes were going unpaid, and the family were at real risk of losing the house altogether over an amount that was small next to what it was worth.
So we paid the probate attorney's fees up front, and we paid the back taxes, which stopped the clock running against the family while the second probate went through. Our attorney ran the case. We sent notaries out to the heirs wherever they happened to live, so that nobody had to travel to Miami to sign anything.
And it closed.
Most buyers price probate risk by simply refusing to carry it — call us when it is finished, they say, which can mean a year of waiting. The eight months was never a reason to walk away from this one. The eight months was the work.
