The Great Wealth Transfer means many may inherit homes, but high taxes, maintenance costs, and legal issues can limit real ...

SYRACUSE, NY - Families facing the loss of a loved one often find themselves navigating unfamiliar legal territory ...

When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate ...

Probate, often feared and misunderstood, is a court-supervised process that settles a deceased person's debts and distributes assets according to their will or state law. The concerns around probate ...

Probate is a largely misunderstood but generally feared concept. Over half of the respondents to a recent study said that they have no idea about the costs involved in probate, and that they perceive ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

When planning for the transfer of assets after death, two terms come up often: probate and trust. Probate is the court-supervised process of validating a will, paying debts and distributing assets to ...

One major disadvantage that comes with a will is that in order to implement it, the family of the decedent must go through probate, the court procedures designed to transfer the assets of a decedent ...

Probate in Pennsylvania is likely to take at least several months and not uncommonly more than a year. Many factors can influence the time required to usher an estate through Pennsylvania. The ...

House Bill 2445 aims to stop third parties from unfairly profiting from dead strangers' estates.