probate
proh bayt
- n a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate
- n the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements
- v put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence
- v establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents)
- Since McClain had been seen around probate court the previous week, Hirtl sent a reporter to chat with court officials.
- For five years, picking away at the probate-court administration in Cuyahoga County, Allen has often broken off bits of news, but he never seemed to hit probate pay dirt.
- Still, you are absolutely right to shun probate in California: it costs your heirs a bundle.