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Estate planning is a process whereby an individual can look at his or her assets and determine how those assets are going to be given to someone who is a close relative, son, daughter, etc., and going through the process of determining how best you can do it, to get those assets to the person you want to get them to, if you pass.

Some of the steps in the probate process in Florida are determining what type of probate you need to go through and determining the assets and determining the original documentation including the will that you would need to go through the steps of the probate.

Probate litigation is as opposed to the probate process. The probate process does not involve litigation, meaning fighting between beneficiaries and/or lawyers. Litigation is when a problem arises during the course of a probate process where evidence is necessary to prove that something is wrong in the probate process.

A will can be contested by any interested party, meaning normally a beneficiary or someone who has been excluded as a beneficiary, when the will is presented to the court for admission to the probate process. However, even after the process begins, one can still raise the issue of whether that will is valid or not valid. Thereby, creating a will contest and presenting evidence to demonstrate that it is a contested will that should not be upheld.

Yes, you should put your funeral wishes in your will so that the personal representative named in your will has direction as to what your final wishes are with respect to either burial, funeral, cremation.