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How to Avoid Probate with a Revocable Trust
Estate Planning

How to Avoid Probate with a Revocable Trust

A revocable trust allows assets correctly transferred into the trust during the grantor's lifetime to bypass probate. This can simplify asset distribution and help preserve ...
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How Does Probate Work?
Estate Planning

How Does Probate Work?

A new report, titled The State of Probate in America, finds many Americans badly misinformed about basic facts of probate.
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Is It Common for Siblings to Fight Over an Inheritance?
Probate

Is It Common for Siblings to Fight Over an Inheritance?

When there's bad blood over an inheritance, you can challenge the trustee—but try talking first.
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What’s the Best Way to Simplify an Estate?
Estate Planning

What’s the Best Way to Simplify an Estate?

Have a clear road map for your estate so your heirs don't drown in paperwork and probate after your death.
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You Need a Will Sooner Vs Later
Estate Planning

How Long Does It Take to Distribute Assets and Close an Estate?

Understanding estate administration makes it easier to honor the wishes of your deceased loved one.
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The Importance of Estate Planning for Expecting Parents
Estate Planning

Challenging a Will: What to Do If You Believe Your Inheritance Is Incorrect

Dealing with inheritance issues? Learn your rights and how to contest a will and preserve your loved one’s wishes.
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Retirement Savings Account Changes
Estate Planning

What Happens If You Inherit a Parent’s House?

Inheriting a house is a process that should begin well before a parent dies. While discussing end-of-life topics can be uncomfortable, the conversations must happen ...
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You Need a Will Sooner Vs Later
Estate Planning

What are the Disadvantages of Dying without a Will?

People who die without a will can leave a thicket of probate problems for loved ones.
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Can an Irrevocable Trust Be Changed?
Estate Planning

A Will Does Not Avoid Probate!

Learn the critical reasons why a will alone is insufficient for a comprehensive estate plan, and why incorporating trusts, beneficiary designations and incapacity planning is ...
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You Need a Will Sooner Vs Later
Estate Planning

Would You Know How to Probate an Estate?

You might have a job or just have retired, and you learn suddenly that your Great Aunt Lucy died and named you executor of her ...
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