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2022 Reminger Co. LPA Advanced Probate Law Institute

Reviewing All Aspects of a Complex Probate Litigation Dispute

Investigation and Economics of a Probate Case
• Investigating undue influence claims / considerations in determining whether to take on an undue influence case
• What Does it Cost to Get a Probate Dispute to Trial?
Presenters: Jessica Forrest and Mary Kraft

Deposition Practice and Cross Examination: Proving (or Disproving) an Undue Influence Case
• Utilize deposition transcripts and video clips to illustrate how to build or defend a case of undue influence through deposition practice.
Presenter: Adam Fried

Settlement Considerations
• Valuation of the case
• Risk of loss
• Considerations of bad and good facts
• Client’s goals
Presenter: Adriann McGee

Probate Litigation Involving Commercial Issues
• Review probate’s intersection with commercial issues with family businesses managed through a trust.
• Case study of the sale of Denver Broncos
Presenter: Paul Shugar

Probate Litigation Ethics
• Gathering Information and Responding to Requests
• Preventing Estate Provisions
• Working with Diminished Clients
• Responding to Subpoenas
Presenters: Nick Sebastiano & Shana DeMooy

Guardianships, Pink Slips, and Involuntary Civil Commitments
• Pink-slips
• Involuntary Civil Commitments (and Forces Medications)
• Guardianships: what they are, how they work, and how they overlap (or don’t) with pink-slips and involuntary civil commitments
Presenters: Phillip Fierst

“View from the Bench”
• Hot Topics from the Probate Court
• Contested Guardianships
• Discovery Disputes
Presenters: Benjamin Suffron, III – Probate Magistrate (Delaware County), Kelly Green – Chief Probate Magistrate (Franklin County)

6.0 CLE Hours, with 1.0 Professional Conduct