When someone passes away without a will in our city, what happens next can be quite confusing, costly, and deeply personal. You might assume things fall into place, but state law takes over–fast. If ...

Dear Quentin, My mother-in-law passed away in 2009 in North Carolina and her only asset was her home that was worth $125,000 at the time. The home was willed to her son with the provision that he ...

This Delaware bill proposes an easier way for homeowners to pass down property, preventing tangled titles and avoiding probate.

National Inventory Reports Australian Government submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. We publish a series of comprehensive reports and ...

The first court hearing in Tony Hsieh’s probate case since his will surfaced showed there are still plenty of questions about the surprising and bizarre turn of events.

A backlog in probate court at the Bureau of Indian Affairs has some Native Americans waiting months, years or generations for their cases to be decided. The Department of the Interior, which houses ...

Nevada legislators approved a bill to change probate laws and sent it to the governor’s desk, after the Las Vegas Review-Journal found a cottage industry reaped paydays selling dead people’s ...