Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Intestacy occurs when someone dies without a will, leaving their estate to be distributed according to probate court ...

By Brooks J. Hollister The conversation of getting your future affairs in order can be an uncomfortable one, but it is a necessary one, nonetheless. As Father Time remains undefeated, it is important ...

When a person passes away, their estate must go through a legal process called probate, where the court validates the will and oversees the distribution of assets. This public process is intended to ...

Probate court is a specialized type of court that deals with the property and debts of a person who has died. The primary function of probate court is to ensure that a decedent's estate is distributed ...

(Springfield, MO) InvestigateTV — Terry Miller’s sons weren’t ready to say goodbye to their father, a fun-loving fisherman with a strong moral code. But they were even less prepared for what followed ...

A trust approaches those same goals with more flexibility and privacy. It can manage assets during life, after death, and even across generations. The differences are not technical details reserved ...

When someone dies, particularly if there’s no will, property sales and the disposal of all of their other assets are handled by a probate court, whose mandate is to get the highest possible prices.

Texas has an extraordinarily easy type of probate called independent administration, which is used for most probate estates.

Circuit Judge David Mouton, elected probate judge in 2006, agreed, saying the court “does act on the basis of information properly brought before the court.” Mouton agreed to discuss procedures of the ...