Many people familiar with litigation probably think of pretrial discovery in the context of traditional and often heated litigation—perhaps a contentious divorce, a complex contractual or real estate dispute or a contested personal injury or medical malpractice lawsuit. While pretrial discovery in Florida is certainly very common in these types of cases, the Florida Probate
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New Jersey Estate Litigation: The Availability of Punitive Damages
By Christopher P. Massaro on
Posted in Estate Planning
In In re Stockdale, the New Jersey Supreme Court addressed the availability of punitive damages in estate disputes involving undue influence claims. 196 N.J. 275 (2008).
The Stockdale case concerned the propriety of a punitive damage award entered against two individuals who pressured an elderly woman to sell her residence on inequitable terms and…