Personal representatives are tasked with managing estates when people die, either according to the terms of their will or the state laws that govern certain successions. An executor is a type of ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

The Michigan Court of Appeals recently identified a situation in which the personal representative of an estate is not entitled to have attorney fees paid from estate assets. Braun Kendrick Finkbeiner ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled in a case of first impression that a disinherited son’s status as an “interested person” under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code did not give him ...

Many estate-planning attorneys use a personal property memorandum (memo) for the disposition of personal property. It’s used when the attorney drafts a client’s will to allow the client to change ...

It is generally assumed capital gains tax (CGT) is replaced by inheritance tax (IHT) on death. However under certain circumstances it still may be charged. Gains already realised by the individual in ...