If you plan to bequeath immovable property in your Will, be mindful that the process can be complicated. As the owner of immovable property, it must transfer to another person upon your death, either ...

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WASHINGTON — There’s a sense of pride knowing that you have accumulated valuable assets to pass on to the next generation. There’s also fear in having to deal with your own mortality and losing ...

The California Court of Appeal recently reaffirmed that a party’s ownership interest in real property must be clearly established before the party can have standing to bring an action for partition of ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Thomas J ...

The state of Texas does not want your inheritance. It may end up with it anyway. Blame it on Chapter 551, an obscure part of the Estates Code that is unhelpfully named “Payment of Estates into ...

Q. Is there still a legal option that I can leave my son’s inheritance to him as his sole and separate property? He has been separated from his wife for two and a half years. My son is 60 years old ...

Imagine that you and your spouse are living your retirement dream in, say, Ecuador. Then your spouse dies and you discover that you now share ownership of your Ecuador dream home with your deceased ...