Solicitors will be forced to submit probate applications online from next month under legislation laid in parliament today, as the government promises a ‘quicker and more reliable’ probate service.

When you serve as the executor of a will, you’ll need to grapple with a lot of paperwork as you coordinate the distribution of assets and property. Rest assured that whatever step of the probate ...

Probate is a legal process through which the estate of a deceased individual is administered. This process includes ...

Solicitors will be invited to join the courts service’s private beta testing stage for online probate from this autumn, Solicitors Journal can reveal. The online probate application form entered into ...

Several years ago, the family law bar strongly opposed the Texas Supreme Court's creation of forms for people to represent themselves in divorces. What might wills, trusts and probate attorneys think ...

A do-it-yourself form, newly created by the Legislature, will allow property owners to transfer land and buildings to their heirs without going through probate court — saving legal fees that ...

Ontario has introduced regulatory changes seeking to streamline the probate process, to improve the format and guiding language of forms and to implement one set of requirements for applications with ...