If you’ve spent any time researching estate planning online, you’ve likely encountered the same advice repeatedly: “Avoid probate at all costs.” Many articles, podcasts, and social media posts portray ...

London faces a hidden crisis of empty homes, not the high-end towers on the Thames, but ordinary family houses, ex-local authority flats, bungalows and large ageing properties that could be housing ...

You have just finished reviewing the asset statements that prospective clients have given to you. Besides seeing that this married couple's portfolio is heavily allocated in small-cap stocks, you ...

Probate is the legal process that validates a deceased person's will and ensures its proper execution. It involves the court's supervision of the administration and distribution of the deceased's ...

The probate process gets a bad reputation, but it's the reality many families will face, and it's a process that can function well for some small estates. Probate is the court-supervised proceeding in ...

Houston probate attorney Whitney L. Thompson (https://www.wthompsonlaw.com/5-probate-problems-you-can-avoid-with-a-proper-estate-plan/) releases a new article ...

The Brooklyn Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) hosted a continuing legal education seminar entitled, “More Probate, More Problems: Planning Estates Without Mistakes,” in Brooklyn Heights ...

As if one probate proceeding on death is not enough, the multiple probate problem happens when, as a New York resident, you die owning real estate in another state in your name alone. All too often, ...