probate

A probate asset would be a bank account without a listed beneficiary or a house with equity.

“If you lack legal standing to contest a will, the judge in the New York probate court will not hear your petition to contest the will.”

Three of his offspring — Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch — had tried to block the elder Murdoch’s plan to consolidate Lachlan’s power — sending the dispute to a Nevada probate court.

In December, a Nevada probate commissioner rejected Rupert Murdoch’s request to amend his trust amid the opposition by three of his adult children.

Gosdinski’s stake in the historic amusement remains tied up in Los Angeles County probate court, where Gosdinski’s mother and sister are vying with another owner for control, records show.