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The Davidson County Chancery Court Part III was designated to serve as the Business Court. [9] [10] Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle [11] was the first Business Court judge and sat on the business court into 2019. [12] In 2017, Davidson County Circuit Court Judge Joe Binkley [13] was appointed a Business Court judge. [14]
A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [ 2 ] or courts of ordinary.
The Circuit Courts of Maryland are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction in Maryland. They are Maryland's highest courts of record exercising original jurisdiction at law and in equity in all civil and criminal matters, and have such additional powers and jurisdiction as conferred by the Maryland Constitution of 1867 as amended, or by law. [1]
He represented the 78th district, which included the city of Chesapeake, from 1974 to 1990. [1] He studied at the University of Richmond, and the T.C. Williams School of Law. Creekmore served ten years as a judge on Virginia's First Judicial Circuit, starting with his appointment in 1998 and ending with his retirement on February 1, 2008. [2] [3]
The council is composed of the Chief Justice as president, one Court of Appeals judge, six circuit court judges, one general district court judge, one juvenile and domestic relations district court judge, two attorneys qualified to practice in the Supreme Court of Virginia, and the Chairmen of the Committees for Courts of Justice in the ...
Oct. 1—A Harford County Circuit Court judge on Friday granted the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's request for an injunction to halt tree clearing at the proposed Abingdon Woods development. . The ...
A Southampton County native, Goodwyn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1983. [2] He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia’s School of Law in 1986, where he was an editor for the Virginia Tax Review, a member of the Raven Society, and received the Ritter Award for honor, character and integrity.
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.