probate

5 definitions • 6 examples

the legal process of deciding if a person's will has been made correctly and if the information it contains is correct:

Before probate can be granted, all business assets have to be identified and valued.

a tax paid on money or property you have received from someone who has died

to prove that a person's will has been made correctly and that the information it contains is correct

the process of managing the property, money, etc. of someone who has died and giving it to the beneficiaries (= people who should receive it):

Unlike a will, a living trust generally does not have to go through probate.

Statewide, 11,605 probate cases were filed last year, three-fourths of them involving estates where no will was left.

grant/obtain probate

a probate court/judge/lawyer

in the US, to go to court to receive the authority to manage the property, money, etc. of someone who has died and give it to the beneficiaries:

probate a will/an estate