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Forbes released the 44th edition of our flagship Forbes 400 list of America’s wealthiest people today. Though we’ve been at ...

The Miami Herald has joined an effort by The New York Times asking a judge to unseal financial records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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When planning for the transfer of assets after death, two terms come up often: probate and trust. Probate is the ...

The verdict caps 16 years of transnational litigation involving probate proceedings in both Turkey and Florida, marking a ...