Next Avenue recently asked readers to tell us the estate planning questions they’d like us to answer. We’re now back with the experts’ views on the top question on your mind, plus — as a bonus — their ...

When a spouse passes away, the surviving partner faces numerous legal and financial decisions during an already difficult ...

A will that put Rocky Hill lawyer Richard Lafferty in line to inherit an elderly woman’s six-figure estate was drawn up in a “contorted and ethically questionable” manner, a probate judge said Monday ...

Cortes Law Firm, an Oklahoma City-based estate planning and probate practice, announces an educational initiative designed to ...

Question: My husband and I bought an investment property in June 2004 with a friend. We held the title as tenants in common. The friend died in February 2005 without a will or a trust. The property ...

A Houston Chronicle investigation of hundreds of records and thousands of court-ordered payments, as well as interviews with judges and lawyers, found evidence of questionable billings and favoritism ...

A Clinton Township woman who takes care of her cognitively impaired sister says she has been locked out of the decision-making process by the Wayne County Probate judge, and the trustee of her ...

From her home in California, Anne Duksa Jimenez wondered about her eccentric cousin, Josephine Smoron. She never knew the old Southington farmer, but the family stories always intrigued her. As one of ...