If you want an extra layer of security and peace of mind, you can create a revocable living trust. A trust would have helped ...

Lawyer Paul Hergott began writing as a columnist in January 2007. Achieving Justice, based on Paul’s personal injury practice ...

A reader challenged me to write about avoiding probate, which he identified as the evil that led him to suffer years of legal “terrorism,” going through what must have been a brutal lawsuit over his ...

The probate of a simple will that leaves property in equal shares to two people should not take more than a few months.

This means that you are entitled to request certain information. This includes, for example, updates on how estate matters ...

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Understanding how Medicaid works—and its relationship to homeownership—is crucial for anyone planning their estate or helping ...

During a recent County Commission meeting, elected leaders expressed their support to keep the current tax as is.

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

Curtis Legal, the Pontypool-based wills and probate solicitors, has appointed accounting and finance graduate Ioan Jenkins to ...