probate

How to grow a probate practice: #2b Make your phone ring with business

February 17, 2010

This post is Part 2 of the series, How to Grow a Probate Practice. Because of its length, I’ve broken it into two posts. The first half was posted yesterday. Yesterday, we started examining a hierarchy of the quality of the referrals you could receive as a probate attorney and, accordingly, which ones you should [...]

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How to grow a probate practice: #2a Make your phone ring with business

February 16, 2010

This post is Part 2 of the series, How to Grow a Probate Practice. Because of its length, I’ve broken it into two posts. The second post will appear tomorrow The Uncomfortable Reality There is an uncomfortable reality about probate practice: someone dies before there is a need for an attorney to handle the probate. [...]

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How to grow a probate practice: Bonus tip

February 15, 2010

This is a bonus post in the series, How to Grow a Probate Practice. On February 9th, I wrote about resources every probate attorney in Minnesota needs to have in order to grow their practice. Here’s an extra tip that may seem obvious but is infrequently followed: Read the probate code. All of it. Regularly. [...]

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How to grow a probate practice: #1 Don’t start until you have these tools

February 9, 2010

This post is Part 1 of the series, How to Grow a Probate Practice. If you want to grow a probate practice, you’ve got to have the right tools to accomplish your job. The tools you need can be divided into two types: forms and resources. Forms Probate is a forms-intensive practice area. Thankfully, there [...]

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How to grow a probate practice: a new series beginning tomorrow

February 8, 2010

Beginning tomorrow (2/9), I’ll be blogging through a multi-week series on how to grow a probate practice. Whether you are just starting out as a lawyer, you are looking to branch out into a new practice area, or you are a seasoned probate attorney looking for a few tips to increase your business, I plan [...]

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New procedure in Hennepin County for issuance of formal estate letters

February 5, 2010

Hennepin County announced today that beginning Monday (2/8), the procedure for obtaining estate letters will change for formal probates. Previously, the estate letters (Letters Testamentary or Letters of General Administration) issued from the “Estate Desk” (i.e. the staff behind the counter). Now, the Letters will issue from the Registrars. According to the notice issued from [...]

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Hennepin County Registrars release updated guide to informal probate

January 27, 2010

The Hennepin County Probate Registrars recently released an updated guide to informal probates. The guide contains helpful information when preparing an informal probate, including customs unique to Hennepin County. I frequently used the old guide when preparing probates. Overall, there isn’t much new compared to the old version. But if you practice in Hennepin County, [...]

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Find medical assistance contacts easily

November 9, 2009

Trying to find the right contact information for a county’s medical assistance department used to be a pain. There was no unified directory that was available to attorneys, which caused attorneys to waste a lot of time trying to obtain clearance certificates or to reach the county regarding medical assistance claims. The MSBA has recently [...]

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Schedule your Hennepin County Probate Registrar appointment in the suburbs

November 2, 2009

If you are opening an informal probate in Hennepin County, save time and avoid the hassle and expense of parking by meeting one of the Probate Registrars in the suburbs rather than downtown. About every other week, Ms. Peterson travels to Brookdale for part of a day. I believe she does the same thing for [...]

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The DVS Code: Deciphering joint ownership language for vehicles in Minnesota

October 14, 2009

When it comes to joint ownership language on vehicle titles, Minnesota’s Driver and Vehicles Services Division operates within its own sphere of logic. The logic of the rules has perplexed more than one probate attorney. Since this issue arises frequently and the DVS cipher is difficult to find even on its own website, I’m reproducing [...]

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