What is probate and how does it work?

Probate is a court supervised procedure to administrate the estate of a deceased person. A probate case is opened whether the deceased person had a will or died without a will. When the deceased dies without a will, they are said to have died intestate and their property is distributed according to State statutes. Any interested party may open a probate estate, but usually it is a close relative or a creditor that will initiate the proceedings. Once the probate case is opened, the court will appoint someone to administrate the estate by issuing letters of appointment as a personal representative.

D.A. "Duke" Drouillard

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Duke Drouillard is a Nebraska lawyer, attorney, and counselor at law who provides legal services to the communities of Omaha, Bellevue, Millard, Bennington, Irvington, West Omaha, South Omaha, Papillion, La Vista, and Gretna in Douglas County, Washington County, and Sarpy County of Eastern Nebraska. Duke Drouillard provides estate planning services in the form of wills, trusts, special needs trusts, IRA trusts, family trusts, legacy trusts, heritage trusts, revocable living trusts (RLT), irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILIT), advanced medical directives (living will), general power of attorney (POA), medical power of attorney (MPOA), limited power of attorney (LPOA), durable power of attorney (DPOA), HIPAA releases, and planning for special needs children. Duke Drouillard offers probate services to probate a new estate, reopen a closed estate, assist personal representatives or executors, defend challenges to wills, administer a trust, advise trustees, pay inheritance tax, estate tax, generation skipping tax (GST), and gift tax. Duke Drouillard is located in the Farm Credit Building at 206 S. 19th St., #336 Omaha, NE 68102. Duke Drouillard practices criminal defense work for those charged with a crime, misdemeanor or felony, in federal, state, and county courts. If you have been arrested for drugs, marijuana, meth, crack cocaine, assault, robbery, burglary, rape, sex crime, child pornography, white collar crime, embezzlement, theft, shoplifting, DUI, DWI, intoxicated, shooting, gun possession, domestic violence, killing, murder, or attempted murder please call Duke Drouillard to day to inquire about hiring him as your lawyer. Duke Drouillard also practices in juvenile court in the separate juvenile court of douglas county to defend parents charged with neglect or abuse of their children based on their child's involvement with CPS or DHHS. Duke Drouillard also represents children, kids, and minors charged with status offenses like truancy or delinquency offenses like shoplifting, assault, burglary, robbery, or drugs.