Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

Probate is a court-supervised process to evaluate the contents of an estate and distribute them to beneficiaries. It is not necessary for the person who has died to bequeath an estate for probate to ...

Though probate is commonly associated with administering someone’s estate if there is no will or executor, it is the term used to cover the general act of distributing an estate regardless of its ...

Next Avenue recently asked readers to tell us the estate planning questions they’d like us to answer. We’re now back with the experts’ views on the top question on your mind, plus — as a bonus — their ...

What is probate? Probate is the legal process for reviewing, managing and distributing someone’s estate after they die. The purpose of probate is to verify the validity of your estate plan. It ...

However, probate is required for the beneficiaries of many classes to obtain legal or marketable title — such as of investment accounts or real estate. The following example (which I wish were fiction ...

If you’re an active real estate buyer, at some point you’ll likely come across a probate sale. Properties sold in probate court can be a good deal, as they’re often priced lower than other homes. But ...

In this unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19, Ramona-based Estate Planning Attorney Jennifer Hughes offers general information to consider. However, this is general legal information only and does not ...

The Transfer on Death Deed is an extremely powerful yet relatively simple estate planning tool available to individuals who own real property in Wisconsin. Everyone who owns real property in Wisconsin ...