Leading probate attorney Jeffrey Jinks, founder of Jeff Jinks Law in Indianapolis, IN, advises executors and families on ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.