If all registered assets pass to your intended beneficiaries without the need for an estate grant, then probate is not required. No probate means no probate fees and no legal expense applying for the ...

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Before you invest time and money into probate avoidance strategies, it's worth taking a step back to understand whether this ...

Putting everything you own into a living trust can feel like the safest way to help your kids skip probate, but some assets ...

Only someone with legal standing — an executor, heir, creditor or beneficiary, for example — can typically file a petition in a case such as this. A friend of the deceased, in most cases, has no ...

For more than a year, Alaska’s court system has been designing a pioneering generative AI chatbot termed the Alaska Virtual ...

Mumbai: Parliament earlier this week cleared a sweeping reform that will end a long-standing anomaly in India’s succession laws, paving the way for Hindus and several other communities to no longer ...

Question: My husband's grandfather lived with us the past three years. He recently passed away. To our knowledge, his only assets are a $100,000 Wells Fargo CD and a “free and clear” vacant lot in ...

Paul Bedard of The Law Office of Paul Bedard won his race for probate judge as an uncontested Democrat. Bedard is a long-time probate practitioner who has served on hundreds of probate matters of all ...

Grieving the loss of a loved one is hard enough, and families are lucky if they're able to prepare in advance for the worst. What most families aren't prepared for, though, are the predatory calls and ...

(NEXSTAR) — As part of a “multi-step overhaul” of the naturalization process, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday that it is expanding and altering its Naturalization ...