QUESTION: Dear Legal Wiz, My great grand father left a will in 1899 thereabouts, which my brothers and I think a probate was done for. We just want to know if the probate was done as the document we have in our possession says Resident Magistrate Court. Can you guide us on how to check if there was a probate? Ezra Brown RESPONSE: Dear Ezra, Up till recently many persons preferred to apply for probate in the Resident Magistrate court. In order to check for a probate however, especially as…
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Contacting the Supreme Court of Jamaica
$16,000 to serve a ‘civil’ summons in Jamaica.. really?
I visited the Sutton Street [Resident] Court and a man took J$3,000 to serve a summons on a businessman that I could not find. Then he wanted J$13,000.00 more
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