Probate can be a lengthy, complicated, and not to mention, costly, process. When you pass away owning real estate that is not placed in trust, your family will need to administer your estate through probate. This means that your family will be required to go to court in order to transfer the title of your property and distribute your assets to your heirs. As you can imagine, the probate process can get quite expensive. As part of probate, your family will have to pay costs such attorney’s fees, personal representative fees, and other filing fees. All of these expenses can.

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How Do You Switch Title (Names) On Bank Accounts When Someone Passes Away If you want to discuss what your family needs to avoid Court proceedings, click here to schedule a strategy session today! In order to switch title to Bank Accounts, you must determine if the account is:  Trust Account  Joint Account Account with a Pay on Death Beneficiary (Beneficiaries inherit your assets) Regular -Account with no Pay on Death Beneficiary The above 4 types of accounts will go through different procedures to switch title.  If you want to discuss what types of accounts are part of your particular.

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How Do You Switch Title (Names) On Bank Accounts When Someone Passes Away If you want to discuss what your family needs to avoid Court proceedings, click here to schedule a strategy session today! In order to switch title to Bank Accounts, you must determine if the account is:  Trust Account  Joint Account Account with a Pay on Death Beneficiary (Beneficiaries inherit your assets) Regular -Account with no Pay on Death Beneficiary The above 4 types of accounts will go through different procedures to switch title.  If you want to discuss what types of accounts are part of your particular.

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Today we’re going to talk about expensive estate plans and how much they usually cost. We’re going to go through an example. In our example, we have a married couple. One person here had to go into a nursing home for about a half a year, the other person had to go into a nursing home for three years because of Alzheimer’s.  We’re in conservatorship is just these are all court proceedings that need to be done if you don’t do estate planning correctly, and this is how much those will cost you per year and usually cost about $10,000.

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Probate sales of Real Property can be complex. Here is an overview of what they are and an idea of what you can expect. But, keep in mind that there are plenty of specifics that will still need to be looked into with a trusted attorney for your individual situation. When someone petitions for a probate, usually they don’t have a trust or that an asset was not included in the trust. When they then go to probate, the judge will ask whether that person who is in charge can be bondable (qualify for insurance). In other words, can this.

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When it comes to passing on one’s estate, going through probate is a typical option that you may fall into as a beneficiary (it’s not your fault!). You can either put everything you own in a trust, or it will have to go through probate in order to properly pass on to the next owner. A probate is used to transfer title from your parents or any person to a next-of-kin, an heir, or somebody else. The assets have to go through probate unless they are in a trust. Though this is a common route many people take, there is.

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Let’s talk about whether a trust overrides a will. Before I answer that question, you got to understand what trust and a will is.  A trust is basically a probate avoidance device where you avoid the courts and do this in a much faster and cheaper way once you pass away for your heirs. A will allows you to go to court and literally is an allowance because it’s a ticket to court.  You must go to court if you only have a will. Or if you have a trust and everything is not in the trust then you’ll still.

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We’re going to talk about whether you need a trust if you own a home, right? So, you own one piece of property. Let’s just say, you own one home, and that’s where you live. And you have a modest account in the bank, and you have to ask yourself, do you need a trust?  These living trusts, you’ve heard about them. Is it necessary for you? If the house is here in California, the answer is absolutely. There are rarely any houses out here in California that are less than $150,000, and therefore, it will go through probate if.

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We’re talking about whether only rich people need trusts. This is a common conception, it’s a misconception out there that rich people are the only people that need trusts, and it’s absolutely incorrect.  The people that need trusts are anybody that have in the aggregate, so total amount of assets, over $150,000. If you have over $150,000, you will go through a process called probate and in order to avoid probate, you must do a trust.  You must sit there and draft a trust and then transfer the assets into the trust. That is the only way, not the only.

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Let’s talk about how long does a probate take. If I file a probate in court today, how long until I could see any of the money as a beneficiary of the will, or just as an heir of that person.  Well, first off, we should talk about what a probate is. A probate is in order to transfer title from your parents or a person to a next-of-kin, or an heir, or somebody else, it has to go through probate unless it’s in a trust.  So if it’s in a trust, you don’t have to worry about it, but.

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