How do I go about getting my money back after someone has falsely put a restraining order on us?

Restraining orders are not probate issues. And if the lawyer you hired isn't a probate lawyer, you need to find someone who is. Check the state...

Parents die but leave no will who gets the money after selling the house?

If Wisconsin's laws are similar to California's, all of the expenses of administering the estate (including court costs, lawyer's fees, executor's...

Why do you say that the deed "is not legal"? Just because it hasn't been recorded with the county recorder's office does not automatically make it...

Regarding my father's will.

I'm sorry about your father's death. What your step-mother can and cannot do depends on several factors, including how your father and she held...

Is there any way to find out if my father, who was a California resident and died in 1973, left me anything in his will?

If there was a probate, it would have been in the county where your father resided at the time of his death. You can write to the County Probate...

Unless there was a written agreement between the parent and the child whose name appears on the accounts, the child whose name is on the accounts...

I was named on my grandmothers will, and I want to remove myself from the will.

You can file what's known as a "disclaimer of interest" in the estate. I don't know whether New York has a specific format that you need to...

If I put the house in my trust and give it to my daughter as a gift upon my death will she have to pay estate tax's?

That depends on a number of factors, including how large your entire estate is and what Congress does with the estate tax mess they've created. ...

Not married, living with partner 20yrs.Name NOT on Mortgage. If partner passes, & Will gives all to me-Does that incld home?

The question isn't whether your name is on the mortgage - that's only the loan against the property; the question is whether your name is on the...

What is the most practical way for a widow worth $3million to avoid estate taxes if she lives until 2011?

Assuming that she has not utilized her $13,000 per person annual exclusion gifts, that would be one place to start - if her son is married, she can...