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Attorney Adrian Philip Thomas is the managing partner in a boutique law firm that focuses on representing clients with estates, wills, trusts, and probate issues in addition to resolving estate litigation, will contests, probate litigation, undue influence, guardianship and lack of mental capacity lawsuits.
Practice Areas
Mr. Thomas represents beneficiaries, charities or potential heirs in the following areas:
WHAT HAPPENS TO PROBATE ASSETS IF THERE IS NO WILL?
WHO IS INVOLVED IN THE PROBATE PROCESS?
WHERE ARE PROBATE PAPERS FILED?
WHO SUPERVISES THE PROBATE ADMINISTRATION?
WHAT IS A PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE, AND WHAT DOES THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE DO?
WHO CAN BE A PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE?
WHO HAS PREFERENCE TO BE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE?
WHY DOES THE PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE NEED AN ATTORNEY?
HOW ARE ESTATE CREDITORS HANDLED?
HOW IS THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE ("IRS") INVOLVED?
HOW IS THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE INVOLVED?
WHAT RIGHTS DO THE SURVIVING FAMILY HAVE IN THE PROBATE ESTATE?
WHAT RIGHTS DO OTHER POTENTIAL BENEFICIARIES (OTHER THAN THE SURVIVING SPOUSE AND CHILDREN UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES) HAVE IN THE PROBATE ESTATE?
HOW LONG DOES PROBATE TAKE?
HOW ARE FEES DETERMINED IN PROBATE?
WHAT ALTERNATIVES ARE AVAILABLE TO FORMAL ADMINISTRATION?
Probate Documents
The executor needs to begin accumulating the following information to expedite Probate or any phase of a Contested Progate:
Probate Litigation
In Florida, probate litigation is one of the most hotly contested areas of the law where surviving family members use the judicial system to correct an array of injustices.
After many years and hundreds of cases, we have learned that the facts are always the same in a general sense, but have infinite variety as to the particulars.
