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Do children have rights to father's estate when he had a spouse?
My step-father passed and my Mother is confused as to what to do and I have been trying to help her. They do not have children together however he has three and she has one child(ren) from previous marriage. She states that he told her to keep everything, that his children have already gotten their inheirtence over the years from accounts he set up for them in the thousands a...
12/06/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Florida | #25563How Do I Deal With a Predeceased Child in a Will?
How do you prepare a will when one of the children is deceased? He had one adopted child and one child who was adopted by her step-father.
10/05/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Washington | #25513How Do I Force the Executor to Show the Heirs the Will After Someone Dies?
My deceased parents had a living will devised in 1990 approximately and my mother died in 1992. My father recently passed away this year and I asked to see the living will and the sibling who was/is the executor of my father's estate refuses to disclose information regarding his estate, the living will and especially details of funds disbursements of my parents estate etc. I ...
09/04/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Ohio | #25454Do I Need a Trust in Addition to a Will?
I have a will that was put into place in Missouri in 2009. I still have a residence that has been leased for four years and will continue to be leased as long as the housing market is poor. Now that I live in Kansas and have grown children plus one grandchild do I need a trust to protect all of my assets in addition to the will. Where do I start?
08/31/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Kansas | #25435Are Expenses of Administration a Debt of the Estate?
Question: A clause in my downloaded will states that all debts will be paid from the residuary estate. Do debts include 'expenses', i.e. expenses of administration? This is a smaller estate - there are no taxes due - but I am curious - should the last clause say 'debts and expenses will be first paid from the residuary estate' and what are the repercussions for stating it th...
06/21/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Connecticut | #25070Can the Same Person be Named Executor, Trustee, and Beneficiary in a Will?
Can the same person be named as Executor,Trustee and as a beneficiary in my Will/?
05/31/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: New York | #24939What Happens to a Child's Share of an Estate After the Child Dies?
if children are named in a will and one dies after the wil is probated can the children or the remaining spose recieve her part in alabama
04/04/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Alabama | #24558How Do I Revoke a Prior Will When I Make a New Will?
I want to replace an existing will. If I do another 'Dave Ramsey site', will it legally replace it? What steps do I take to insure this?
04/03/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Georgia | #24554My father put my name on all his bank accounts and on his home
my father put my name on all his bank accounts and on his home .does he still need a will.he is leaving it up to me to distribute the money after he has deceased
03/28/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: Maryland | #24517When a will says bodily heirs what does that mean?
Three children one child deceased two living children at the time of fathers death. When a will says bodily heirs. Does that mean that the two living children inherit the inheritance or is the heirs of the deceased child considered bodily heirs?
03/26/2011 | Category: Wills and Estates | State: West Virginia | #24502