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a thousand dollar : savings account and somebody has
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to decide how to dole that money out until the child is
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of age.
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If you would comment on those things, I think
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you and Judge Colgan both, you would furnish a tremendous
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amount of valuable assistance because, believe me, there
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is no intention here to abolish the probate system.
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It is simply a question of upgrading judges.
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JUDGE FRIEDMAN: I have a strong
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view on that. I am for probating of wills or granting
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of letters in intestacy that the court, be it one judge
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or two or three judges, the court would only have
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jurisdiction to grant these letters.
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MR. ENEY: You mean the judge by that.
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JUDGE FRIEDMAN: The judge. Number one,
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it is a formal probate of a will. You have your wit-
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nesses, you swear them in. It brings to a higher caliber
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the probating of a will. It stops all shenanigans that
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possibly could happen because in my experience, unfortunate
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we had a couple bad ones, but any time there was a bad
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one, the will was probated with the Register of Wills,
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