Coffee, Bagels & Complicated Closings - A REALTOR® Q&A on Wills and Probate

For all BALDWIN COUNTY REALTORS® who have questions about Wills, Trusts, and Probate as it relates to Real Estate.

Reserve your seat today.

Real estate gets interesting when family, property, legal documents, and life circumstances all meet at the closing table.Join us for coffee, bagels, and a practical Q&A with Sam W. Irby, Attorney at Law, as we talk through the real world situations REALTORS® often run into when wills, trusts, probate, inherited property, and title issues affect buying and selling a home.

This event is designed for local REALTORS® who want to better understand what questions to ask, what red flags to recognize, and when to encourage clients to seek legal guidance before a transaction gets complicated.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, August 26
Time: 9:00 to 10:30 AM
Who is invited: All Baldwin County REALTORS®
Featuring: Sam W. Irby, Attorney at Law
Bagels & Coffee: Knockout Inspections

What We’ll Talk About

This will be a relaxed, question driven conversation covering real estate situations involving:

• Wills and inherited property
• Probate transfers
• Trusts and trustee authority
• Personal representatives and estate sales
• Who has legal authority to sign
• Different ways title can be held
• Common title and deed issues
• Power of sale questions
• Family and estate complications that can delay closing

**Send your questions now today.**

Why REALTORS® Should Attend

Because complicated closings rarely announce themselves politely.

One transaction may involve a seller who inherited property, another may involve a trust, a family member, a personal representative, or a property owner who passed away before the sale was complete. Knowing what to watch for early can help you ask better questions, serve your clients with more confidence, and avoid last minute surprises.

Sam’s presentation materials cover ways title can be acquired, including deeds, wills, inheritance, probate transfers, intestate succession, personal representative deeds, survivorship, foreclosure, tax sales, court orders, and entity ownership. The materials also address how trusts, estates, and Uniform Transfer to Minors Act ownership can affect the transfer of real estate title.

About Sam W. Irby

Sam W. Irby is an attorney with Irby & Heard, P.C. in Fairhope, Alabama. He has practiced law in Fairhope and Baldwin County since 1971 and served as President of the Alabama State Bar Association from 2018 to 2019. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and has extensive experience in real property, probate, trusts, mediation, and Alabama legal matters.

Submit Your Questions Ahead of Time

This event will be Q&A focused, and we want the conversation to reflect the situations REALTORS® are actually seeing in the field.Have a question about probate, inherited property, trusts, title, authority to sign, or estate related closing issues?

Submit your questions now so they can be included in the discussion.

Hosted & Sponsored By

Knockout Inspections, Level Property Management Group, and Ashurst Niemeyer Real Estate

Please Note

This event is for educational purposes and is not intended as legal advice for any specific transaction. REALTORS® should always encourage clients to consult the appropriate legal professional regarding their individual circumstances.