At the risk of providing too much ” inside baseball” with this column, I am pleased to inform my readers that the probate and family court’s records are now online. Who cares about his news? If you ...

When planning for the transfer of assets after death, two terms come up often: probate and trust. Probate is the ...

Probate manages distribution of a deceased's estate; it can be streamlined by a will. Certain assets like life insurance and jointly-owned property bypass probate automatically. Creating a living ...

At the risk of providing too much “inside baseball” with this column, I am pleased to inform my readers that the probate and family court’s records are now online. Who cares about his news? Iif you ...

Tina Jones has been trying to help her mother, Elsie Andrews, sell her home at 703 Emerson St. NE, only to encounter severe delays with the probate process. Credit: Darrow Montgomery But even after ...

When researching your family history, do not narrow your search to only a male or female member of the family. With that approach, you might overlook helpful documents. Make a list of known brothers, ...

Every Tuesday morning, Maureen Vire heads faithfully to Calhoun County Probate Court. She always has a stack of records waiting for her. Vire carefully opens the paper records and scans them into a ...

About half of all people who die in the United States die without a will — a legal directive of what will happen to their money, debts and properties after they’re gone. More than 700,000 people have ...