Our dad is 93 and has a reverse mortgage on his house, where he lived until recently with my brother and my brother’s friend.

Being named as an executor of an estate for someone is both an honor and an overwhelming responsibility. The person who passed away trusted you enough to handle their final affairs, but that trust ...

Learn how probate validates a will, pays debts, and distributes assets to heirs. State intestacy laws apply when there is no ...

Executors and administrators of estates in Virginia must swear an oath before the probate clerk that they will “faithfully perform the duties of [their] office to the best of [their] judgment.” These ...

Most people are completely unaware of the heavy personal legal and financial responsibility they accept when they agree to ...

Q: My mother died in January 2023. My sister is the executor of her estate. When I enquire about what is going on with the probate, she gets hostile and says it's in probate court and she's waiting to ...

The court ruled she was personally liable for unpaid income taxes after her husband died intestate and she was never ...

The facts of Estate Spenlinhauer v Commissioner (U.S. Tax Court, Dec. 30, 2025) read like an instruction manual on how to ...

'The attorney for my late father stated that all beneficiaries needed to wait 10 months before disbursements from the sale of the home could be released' "The executor has failed to finalize my father ...