by Zachary Reams | Dec 5, 2019 | Probate and Estate Articles
There was a recent article in the Daily Sentinel that created a lot of buzz with my estate planning clients you can read here. All of sudden, everyone wanted a beneficiary deed. We wrote and recommended such a tool in 2016 It solves everything, am I right? Maybe....
by Zachary Reams | Jan 2, 2019 | Probate and Estate Articles
Administering an estate or trust? Were taxes filed before the person died? How would you know? The IRS allows access to previously filed returns with authority. An unpaid income tax bill is common. Hopefully, there is a recorded lien to alert you. But some go...
by Zachary Reams | Sep 27, 2018 | Probate and Estate Articles, Sales and Auctions
Auctioning off a property is quick. It gets the property sold. However, it comes at a cost. When real estate in an estate or trust sits on the market for too long, the heirs may start to get impatient. Even if you listed the property for market value, you may not get...
by Zachary Reams | Mar 9, 2018 | Probate and Estate Articles
Nobody likes to think about their estate plan, because it makes you think about death or disability. It is an uneasy feeling–to brainstorm scenarios of plane crashes or nursing homes. To avoid that, we shelve estate planning for a later date....
by Zachary Reams | Oct 6, 2016 | Probate and Estate Articles
I recently read an article that posed the question whether you should put your home in a living trust. The author did not like probate. If you from a larger city, I don’t blame her: Probate proceedings in different states with larger populations can get...
