If your brother got 70% of your father's estate and you wound up with 25%, where did the other 5% go? At any rate, I would contact the Legal Aid...

No, she needs to appoint you as Successor Trustee and she needs to resign. She'll execute a Resignation and Appointment and you'll execute a...

Just because you've been named as the executor of a will doesn't mean you have to accept the appointment. You can refuse to serve. That said,...

Yes, you'll need to do your own estate plan (possibly including a living trust) because your mom's trust likely terminated after she died and the...

I often describe a revocable living trust (RLT) as an "open top box". If you can reach into your RLT and take assets out of it, so can your...

Unless your sister signed a trust transfer deed and recorded it with the County Recorder, which would have transferred the home into the trust,...

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "each revised page". If you have a revocable living trust (RLT), and you have it updated, either by...

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I'm not licensed in Illinois, so my analysis is general in nature. If you're going to probate your husband's estate anyway, then what are known...

How the property will pass depends on how it's titled. If your husband and his father own it as joint tenants with the right of survivorship...

I see no reason why a power of attorney would have to be witnessed in California. Of the thousands of Durable POAs that I've done, they've all...