Inheritance Funding reports that probate delays can be minimized by personal representatives through clear communication, ...

When you die, estate planners say, one of the finest gifts you can leave your heirs is a plan for avoiding probate. Probate ...

The typical probate process to settle a will or the estate of somebody who dies without one takes 20 months, according to a new survey on probate from Trust & Will, an online estate-planning service.

Learn about the relationship between probate and inheritance tax, the payment process, important steps, legal implications, and expert tips.

My mom died just over a year ago, and I’m still knee-deep in probate. I’m barely average. The typical probate process to settle a will or the estate of somebody who dies without one takes 20 months, ...

Probate Initiation: An interested party, often a family member or creditor, petitions the probate court to open an intestate estate. Appointment of Administrator: The court appoints an administrator ...

Some of the most valuable documents for genealogy are wills and the documents related to the legal process of administering a person's property after their death. This process is called probate. If ...

The number of bereaved families waiting six months or more for probate has more than doubled, but the Government promises it is training extra staff to rapidly increase processing of applications.

More than four in five people thought the value of everyday items was too high in a test by a probate and chattel valuer.