Mr Harris has provided sound advice but I would add that there are steps you can take to protect yourself even if you do NOT need to file probate....

Do you HAVE to? No. But if you don't the mortgage company very likely has the right to foreclose, and if you wanted the house, you would lose it...

Mr Frederick is right legally but if the hospital will provide records to your step-mother why not ask her to get them? LEGALLY the right to...

You say "I found out that the home was my father's". HOW did you find that out? Do you have the last recorded deed showing it was his? Was there...

First of all, YOU (and your husband's kids) don't owe, and never have owed, anything for HIS car, if indeed it was his and his alone and the debt...

What does her 'lease' say? (Yes, I know, probably no written lease, but I think you can see why one would be helpful!) GENERALLY speaking as a...

A personal representative cannot ‘hide’ a will IN PROBATE. But I’m getting ahead of myself. 1) there are no ‘executors’ in Michigan. We...

CAN they? Anyone with $250 can file to open an estate and seek to have non-probate assets 'attached' and brought back into the estate given the...

Do you want to NAME them as the agent to make decisions for you or do you want to use them as WITNESSES to the document? They can EITHER be the...

And the REAL answer is that trusts are perhaps the MOST expensive way to avoid probate. Sometimes, a 'ladybird' deed is far better. SOMEtimes the...