Avoiding probate is often an important goal for many estate planning clients. Probate is the court-supervised process of administering a deceased person’s estate and transferring their property at ...

When someone buys or sells a home, the purchase and transfer of the property is always facilitated by a real estate deed — a written document that legally transfers the ownership of a property from ...

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Enhanced life estate deeds, affectionately nicknamed Lady Bird deeds, can be an effective tool in real estate to transfer ownership of real property upon death. They got their nickname when President ...

Without a will, your state probate court decides where your property goes after your death. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who compensate us when ...

If a trust is part of your estate plan, your assets will need to be transferred into it at some point. Most of the time, this is a fairly simple process that requires nothing more than listing the ...

When a person dies, they might expect their remaining assets to follow a common sense line of succession, passing first to their spouse, then to their children. But even when these lines of succession ...

In Texas, the three primary types of deeds used to transfer real property offer varying degrees of protection.

That's exactly what happened to Margaret Miller after her husband, David, unexpectedly died only two years after they put their shared assets in a revocable living trust, the Cape Gazette reports.