Aug 10, 2015 | Probate and Estate Administration
After a loved one dies, you need to gather the important documents that are necessary to settle their final affairs. While the documents required will vary depending on what your loved one owned and owed, below is a list of common documents you will need to find:...
Jul 26, 2015 | Probate and Estate Administration
One of the first things you should do as a newly appointed executor of a deceased person’s probate estate or successor trustee of a deceased trustmaker’s trust is ask the post office to forward the deceased person’s mail to your address. Unfortunately, along with...
Jul 31, 2013 | Estate Planning
Who Should Be Your Successor Trustee? If you have a revocable living trust, you probably named yourself as trustee so you can continue to manage your own financial affairs, but eventually someone will need to step in for you when you are no longer able to act due to...
Jul 24, 2013 | Estate Planning
Identity thieves have long targeted a wide variety of potential victims – men, women, senior citizens, even children and babies. Now, a growing segment of identity theft involves deceased Americans. Each year, criminals steal the identities of 2.5 million deceased...
