At the risk of providing too much “inside baseball” with this column, I am pleased to inform my readers that the probate and family court’s records are now online. Who cares about his news? Iif you ...

When planning for the transfer of assets after death, two terms come up often: probate and trust. Probate is the ...

Probate manages distribution of a deceased's estate; it can be streamlined by a will. Certain assets like life insurance and jointly-owned property bypass probate automatically. Creating a living ...

Greg DePersio has 13+ years of professional experience in sales and SEO and 3+ years as a writer and editor. skynesher / Getty Images Though your will is not public during your lifetime, after you die ...

About half of all states now let real estate owners transfer properties at death using beneficiary/transfer on death deeds. The deeds are less costly to draft than living trusts. They're also flexible ...

Every Tuesday morning, Maureen Vire heads faithfully to Calhoun County Probate Court. She always has a stack of records waiting for her. Vire carefully opens the paper records and scans them into a ...