My grandmother passed away left an estate, including a house, in a trust for my mother who is in a nursing home and on Medicaid.

It sounds like your grandmother may have given you the tools to allow your mother to remain on Medicaid but still receive benefit from her trust....

Will a divorce nullify or terminate legal guardianship?

The divorce itself would not end your guardianship if it was established in Probate Court. However, depending on why you have guardianship, the...

Is a signed Power of Attorney by our daughter enough to care for our grandson even if we move out of state?

In this situation a power of attorney is commonly used just as you are using this one. However, if your daughter were to pass away, that power of...

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I know this is a difficult and emotional time and everyone deals with it differently. In most cases, being eldest is not the deciding factor....

My 3 year old son's father passed away in an accident 2 weeks ago and his parents said that my son would get his daddy's house.

The first lesson to anyone reading this is, it doesn't matter how old you are, estate planning is necessary. A will, durable power of attorney for...

If a father had a will, the Father died in 1993, the will was not probated, Mother died in 2012. which do you probate both in KS

If the assets, including the land, were all owned with wife as joint tenants with right of survivorship, the fact that father's will was not...

My wife of over 50 yrs wants to sue me because i put her inheritance in our joint account which she has all access to.

An inheritance is considered separate property unless the recipient does something to make it marital (like putting it into a joint account). If...

Can a deceased persons will be overturned by the surviving spouse?

If I'm reading you correctly, your mother's will has nothing to do with the real estate because it was held in joint tenants with right of...

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My mother died recently she had a will that said to sell all her property and split the proceeds up among the beneficiaries.

The ToD (beneficiary) designation takes the real estate out of the control of the will (probate) assuming all the named beneficiaries are living...

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I live in Kansas. By law do i have to go/file the will with probate court.

Kansas law (and probably most states) requires that anyone in possession of the original will of a deceased person is to file it with the court....