You’re excited to be selling your home. Or you found a fabulous house you want to buy. Then the closing attorney tells you there will
As recently as a few years ago, a probate attorney’s best advice after someone passed away was for the heirs to start checking the deceased
Think of the word homestead and pioneering families heading west to settle the land likely come to mind. But in real estate, the word has
The new year is always a good time to take stock of your estate plans and be sure they are up to date. You’ll want
Maybe you set up your revocable trust as a married couple before you got divorced. Perhaps you’ve decided to change who the successor trustee will
You might think that when a loved one passes away, you have to wait until the probate process is complete to sell their home, but
In the spirit of the Halloween season, we thought it would be fun to turn our attention to real-estate closing horror stories—for the amusement of
In the ideal world, when a loved one passes away, you’d deposit his or her valid will with the court and sail through probate—which would
Hurricane Irma is gone, but the effects of her wrath are still being felt all over South Florida. One group impacted are people who have
Wikipedia gives this definition of a pour-over will: “A pour-over will is a testamentary device wherein the writer of a will creates a trust, and
