You likely want the assets you’re able to leave your loved ones in your estate plan to make their lives easier. Maybe they can buy a larger home, worry less about how they’re going to pay for their kids’ college educations, put away some extra money for retirement and...
You finally talked your widowed father into putting his estate plan in place. You know that you’re going to have to give him some help or he’ll never get around to doing it. The problem is that you’ve got siblings on the other side of the country who will be expecting...
If your loved one left behind a will, their estate must go through probate, a court process that validates the legality of the will and administers the distribution of the testator's assets. Usually, the personal representative appointed in the will or by the probate...
