How do I determine the value of my mom's home? She had a life estate and has died.

This is a confusing question. If your mother owned a life estate then the ownership has passed to the owner of the remainder interest. The house...

How difficult is it to challenge a copy of a will that is five years old?

The will being a mere five years old does not help you in challenging it as it represents a fairly recent statement of the testator's intent. If...

My mother left my aunt our family house in her will and went into hospice care before changing it. How do we deal with that

You're probably stuck with the 2006 will but there is some chance that the house could still fall to you if all the relevant parties are on board...

Might "life estate" property revert back to being part of someone's estate?

Generally, a life estate does not require a certain period of survivorship of the life tenant before the remainder interest is vested. Look to the...

Costs of administration, including the executor's legal fees, are born by the estate and you are entitled to reimbursement from the estate assets...

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How do I revoke a living trust?

Your trust may contain provisions eliminating your former spouse as a beneficiary upon the event of divorce, or it may not. You do not need to...

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Brother & I on deed for father's house in conjunction w/ our father. Father now deceased. Is the home part of estate?

You need to look to the form of ownership on title. If you are joint tenants with rights of survivorship then the house is not part of your...

Can the spouse of a deceased have a will made after her husbands death?

This is a confusing question. Certainly, a spouse cannot create a will for the deceased. No one can create/execute a will for another person,...

I am working on a final account for a probate in NC. On my inventory I show a value of 400.00 for vehicle and 250.00 for furn.

It's difficult to assist with an accounting question like this without seeing the accounting itself. Your accounting should show that the car and...

What forms do I need to hand out.

I assume you are acting as the personal representative of the estate in this transaction as this scenario implicates probate property of your...

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