Complex matters. Online wills fail miserably when they are used for any situation out of the ordinary, such as blended ...

At the risk of providing too much ” inside baseball” with this column, I am pleased to inform my readers that the probate and family court’s records are now online. Who cares about his news? If you ...

This undated public document from Massachusetts probate records provided by ancestry.com, shows a portion of Paul Revere's will. A three-year digitization project by the genealogical research firm ...

We constantly hear from advisors that we should plan our affairs in such a way as to avoid probate. What does the phrase mean and what property is subject to the probate process? What planning is ...

Inheritance Funding reports that probate attorneys guide families through the legal complexities of estate management, ...

A family member dies and you were named executor in the decedent’s will. So you go to the decedent’s bank to take out funds to pay funeral costs and other expenses, bringing the original will and the ...

At the risk of providing too much “inside baseball” with this column, I am pleased to inform my readers that the probate and family court’s records are now online. Who cares about his news? Iif you ...

Boston • Paul Revere left all his household furniture to an unmarried daughter. Harriet Beecher Stowe bequeathed her stock in several railroads and a Florida orange grove to her son. Daniel Webster ...

For the last four decades the Library-Archives Division of the Wisconsin Historical Society has been working on collecting, processing, and scanning probate records from across Wisconsin for the ...