Mishawaka, IN
Probate Lawyer at Mishawaka, IN
Practice Areas: Probate, Lawsuits & Disputes ... +4 more
OUTCOME: favorable
Estate beneficiary filed various petitions to compel Personal Rep. to do various things based on alleged problems. Tim Kalamaros defended the Personal Representative and his actions and the petitions ... were not granted. Kalamaros also successfully addressed issues arising in an estate connected to that one.
OUTCOME: favorable
Tim Kalamaros represented a beneficiary of an estate, where the Personal Representative was asking the court to approve a too-fast sale of the client's home. Kalamaros obtained an order from the court ... giving sufficient time delaying the sale so that the beneficiary could get appraisals and make a reasonable offer to buy the home from the estate.
OUTCOME: favorable
Client had been guardian of parent, and the client's sibling had undertaken vociferous challenges to guardianship administration during the parent's life. After the parent died, and a successful defen ... se of guardian against many accusations of impropriety, Tim Kalamaros also obtained appointment of the former guardian as the Personal Representative of the deceased' parent's estate.
OUTCOME: favorable
Estates of husband and wife shared complex financial assets. Tim Kalamaros successfully defended husband's estate against attempts to invade financial privacy with defective subpoena. Also successfull ... y defended PR against other Co-PR's attempt to have him removed. Finally, obtained favorable judicial instructions concerning the disposition of estate assets which advanced administration in the best interests of all interested parties.
OUTCOME: favorable
Court appointed guardian's accounting was challenged after the protected person's death. Challenger objected and argued that assets were hidden and not reported. Tim Kalamaros defended the guardian's ... accounting, and the accounting was approved by the court over the challenger's objections.
OUTCOME: favorable
Husband and wife died near in time to one another. Each parent's estate had a different Personal Rep and lawyer. Though they had a happy marriage, the two different groups of children from previous u ... nions became adverse during the probate administration process. Adversarial hearings and objections were heard in court at different times in the process. Eventually, the estates were both finally resolved by the mutual agreement of all.
OUTCOME: favorable
Kalamaros represented an heir of an estate. A final account was submitted by the Personal Representative which had a big problem. Kalamaros objected and scheduled a hearing on the objection to the tro ... ubling "accounting." Prior to the hearing, a new final accounting was filed which added over $716,000 worth of newly "found" assets to the estate.
OUTCOME: favorabe
Deceased gave gift of financial account to daughter before death. Daughter became PR and used funds to help pay for estate expenses. Unhappy sibling challenged gifts made by deceased and tried to obt ... ain private financial information about the use of the funds. Tim Kalamaros represented recipient of gifts, defended property and privacy successfully against all attempts made in court to claw back gifts and invade financial privacy of the daughter.
OUTCOME: favorable
Deceased left behind a trust account but brokerage had none of the proper paperwork on file, and refused to delivery assets to Personal Rep for the estate of the deceased. Kalamaros docketed the trus ... t of the deceased, and proved facts and law to the court which would allow for a cure of the problem. The court ordered delivery of the brokerage money to Kalamaros' client as petitioned and the brokerage complied.
OUTCOME: favorable
Tim Kalamaros on behalf of a Co-Personal Representative, petitioned to remove the other Co-Personal Representative, due to improper expenditures made on estate account. At contested hearing, Kalamaros ... put on witnesses for examination to prove the facts on record; witnesses were cross examined and redirected. After evidence hearing and argument from lawyers for all, Judge granted Kalamaros' petition, made finding of improper expenditures, and ordered removal of P.R. who did wrong, cancellation of her letters of office, return of estate property to Kalamaros' client, and for accounting and other remedial actions.
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