Your father just passed away. You’ve said your final farewell at the funeral, but then realize this is only the beginning. It’s now time to start the arduous probate process. Emotions are already running high, but now you’ve realized there’s something wrong with the will your father left. As a beneficiary who was expecting […]

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Obtaining the death certificate, filing the petition for probate, notifying beneficiaries and creditors, appraising and distributing assets, and paying off debts is already a lot for an executor of a will to handle. But with a rise in the use of computers to handle most everything in our lives and the increase in second or […]

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As part of our primer for probate in California, the first step for initialing probate is to file your probate petition. Filling out Form DE-111 is the first step to take in California to appoint a personal representative or executor. Let’s breakdown the initial information requests at the top of the form. The Executor and the […]

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Knives Out chronicles the mystery behind the death of affluent patriarch (Christopher Plummer). Hidden within Detective Benoit Blanc’s (Daniel Craig) investigation is a family in turmoil – not because of the death itself, but because of how he divided his grand estate in his last will and testament. When it’s discovered that the patriarch has […]

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As a citizen of the United States, we all feel as if we know how laws should be enforced simply because “that’s how it’s done in my state.” What we all fail to understand (or don’t want to understand) is that each state has the constitutional right to create laws for the benefit of their […]

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A lot of movies in the marketplace are titled Inheritance (or some variation of that). These films tend to take a dramatic, morose look at inheritances and can be relatable or therapeutic if you’ve recently lost a loved one. But they also focus more on character relationships than with the inheritance itself. On the other […]

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