Q: How do I get my hearing date for status report modified to include Petition for final distribution?
My father died 5 days before my mother. I am sole beneficiary and a personal representative of my mother's estate. I have filed a spousal property petition for my fathers assets to go to my mother's estate. As it was necessary to wait for these assets to transfer to my mother's estate I filed a status report requesting more time to complete the probate. At the spousal property petition hearing the judge granted the petition and then authorized me to (in the event that I was able to prepare the petition for final distribution for my mother's estate before the status report hearing date) to instruct the clerk to
use the upcoming hearing date for the status report for that of petition for final distribution.
How exactly do I ask or word this to the filing clerk? Or do I fill in the hearing date myself when I am filing the petition for final distribution? I am not sure if this is common practice and can't remember exactly the terminology that the judge used.
A: You would fill in the hearing date and then put in your filing that the judge said it was okay to set the same hearing date.
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