When a person dies, they might expect their remaining assets to follow a common sense line of succession, passing first to their spouse, then to their children. But even when these lines of succession ...

As U.S. home values hit record highs, many families are using transfer-on-death, or TOD, deeds to bypass probate and pass property directly to heirs. These legal instruments have surged in popularity ...

Americans have trillions of dollars of wealth locked up in their homes, and passing it on at death can get messy quickly. The typical way of outlining who should get the house in a will can cause ...

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Q: What happens when a newly sentenced convict is imprisoned for a long term with no time to organize his or her financial affairs? Who needs to do what and when, especially if no one is already ...

That's exactly what happened to Margaret Miller after her husband, David, unexpectedly died only two years after they put their shared assets in a revocable living trust, the Cape Gazette reports.