I am sorry for your loss. I am not clear from your question if your sister has been appointed as personal representative already or that she is...

I am sorry for your loss. Provided the IRA has a beneficiary - alive, as you suggest, the asset should pass to the identified beneficiary once a...

I am sorry for your loss. If there is a Will, it will be filed with the Probate Court. I am guessing that your parent, their child is not in the...

I am sorry for your loss. I am also sorry to say that this answer is not an easy one. It will depend on how the house was titled, the information...

I’m sorry for your loss. I think one way that you could learn about your father’s banking history would be to become appointed personal...

I am so sorry for your loss. When you state that the man "signed his parental rights away", that sounds to me to be the same steps that are...

Your brother has no authority until your mother passes away. In order to get authority, he needs to petition the Court to be appointed and to have...

The attorney preparing these documents will note that the grantor/testator/principal is signing by a mark and that the witnesses acknowledge the...

The price of planning varies based on the complexity of the estate and to a degree the experience of the attorney performing the task. Pricing is...

This is a complicated question to try to address on this site. The bottomline is that the trust will need to be read to be sure that it remains an...