The decisions you make when setting up your estate plan have a powerful effect on the legacy you leave behind to your loved ones and heirs. A proper estate plan can help to ensure that your end-of-life financial needs are met, your final wishes seen to, your assets protected and your children and other heirs …
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When a person dies, whether they do or do not have a will, there’s a chance that their heirs and beneficiaries may need to undergo a court process to settle their estate. This legal process serves to determine the real and personal property, and to determine the overall market value of the assets for tax …
Dividing marital assets is an important part of the divorce process. Though the standard procedure is to distribute assets equally between spouses, a trust may be able to protect your assets from division. So, can a trust protect assets in divorce? Asset division according to divorce law can be complicated, but your Montana Trusts Lawyers …
Probate is the court-supervised process of collecting a decedent’s property and assets and distributing them to their beneficiaries. Unless there are family members fighting over the assets, there’s very little actual court time involved. Probate is mostly paperwork. If probate does move to court, however, the process is a little bit different. Find out how …
