Safety Deposit Boxes and Your Estate

While safe deposit boxes are great when you need to store personal items securely, they aren’t always ideally suited for... Read More

3 Questions About Probate and the Type of Property it Covers

Question 1: What is Probate? Probate is legal process through which a deceased person’s property must proceed before a new... Read More

Joint property ownership allows more than one person do have an ownership interest in certain property. For example, spouses will... Read More

The details of how a deceased person’s property transfers to new owners are all addressed during the probate process. Like... Read More

A letter of instruction is a very useful estate planning tool, and one that many estate executors use as their... Read More

Probate and estate planning law is rife with archaic, rarely encountered, and often confusing language. It’s quite common for people... Read More

A good executor will be able to quickly step in and manage your estate soon after you die. But just... Read More

Being responsible for handling a probate estate can be a daunting task. If you find yourself in the position of... Read More

A probate court judge in Centre County, Pennsylvania has ordered that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s last will... Read More

Fine artist Thomas Kinkade died in April, leaving behind a very valuable estate. Almost immediately after his death, his estate... Read More

Though we recently blogged that the Rosa Parks estate battle appeared as if it were finally coming to an end... Read More

Gary Coleman, the child actor who starred in the television show “Diff’rent Strokes,” died two years ago, though he left... Read More