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Washington, DC, July 29, 2025-"California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law a budget bill for the state with many pro-housing provisions, including a six-year pause on adopting or ...

In an opinion issued on Thursday, the Supreme Court of Florida adopted amendments to Florida Probate Rule 5.405, which governs proceedings to determine the protected homestead status of real property.

Wondering whether retirement accounts go through probate? In most cases, they don’t — thanks to beneficiary designations.. Retirement accounts like IRAs, 401(k)s and annuities typically bypass probate ...

Members of the Law Society of Alberta filing grant applications for probate are required to use the Surrogate Digital Service (SDS). Members of the Law Society filing grant applications other than ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

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Isidoor Bornstein was born July 4th, 1936, in Antwerp. As the Nazis headed toward Belgium, the Bornsteins decamped to British Guiana, where they lived for six years. After the war, the family settled ...

Carl Laemmle saw a chicken ranch in the San Fernando Valley, and he had a vision. He would take his burgeoning Universal Moving Pictures company and build a studio complex unlike anything the movie ...

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