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Sounds like a difficult situation. I've changed the practice area of your question to get you better responses. It's very unlikely that your...

Can the qualified beneficiaries of the "B" trust in an "A/B" trust be changed?

Your grandmother may have the power to vary the beneficiaries following her death, but things are generally set in stone as you say. It sounds...

If you have no will once you pass away, how are assets dispersed?

If both your parents survive, they take equally; or if only one parent survives that parent takes all. See Section 29-15(3) of the North Carolina...

Who possess the right to someone's ashes

It's unlikely that payment for the funeral is relevant to the question of who has the right to the ashes. But this is a very state-specific...

Wife rights

I'm sorry for your trouble. You say that the hospital granted a poa to your mother-in-law. But ONLY your husband has the power to grant a poa (or...

What rights do I have as an estate executor (but not beneficiary) to request information from a marital/QTIP trustee?

Your mother was the sole beneficiary of the QTIP trust during her lifetime. She had a right to all of the net income of the trust during that...

Greetings, Awful experience with my Dad's Funeral Home this July ...Over charges and we established a Irrevocable trust in 2009

I'm sorry for your loss and frustration. It sounds like you have two claims here. One is a claim against the funeral home for the unauthorized...

What takes precedence testimony in court or an answer in a deposition when the answers conflict, 1 is a bank teller one the Exec

Both testimony in court and an answer in a deposition are sworn testimony and are equally admissable into evidence. One has no precedence over the...

You are correct. The gross taxable estate includes both probate and nonprobate assets. So a final accounting will not be the same. The final...

What do you do when the executor of a estate with hold assets from probate court to keep another from claiming funds from a 401k

I'm not sure of the details of your question. But ordinarily nothing done in the probate court is connected with a person's 401(k) plan. The...