Greg DePersio has 13+ years of professional experience in sales and SEO and 3+ years as a writer and editor. skynesher / Getty Images Though your will is not public during your lifetime, after you die ...

Probate is the legal process to establish the validity of a will. Probate court is where you go when there are disputes over a will’s validity. Probate judges make the final call. Simple enough, right ...

The probate process gets a bad reputation, but it's the reality many families will face, and it's a process that can function well for some small estates. Probate is the court-supervised proceeding in ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

If you’re an active real estate buyer, at some point you’ll likely come across a probate sale. Properties sold in probate court can be a good deal, as they’re often priced lower than other homes. But ...

Most people should have a will, but a living trust can help keep your assets from going through probate. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

A Nevada lawmaker is looking to reform the probate system after a Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation exposed a cottage industry reaping big paydays selling dead people’s homes through court while ...

Paul Bedard of The Law Office of Paul Bedard won his race for probate judge as an uncontested Democrat. Bedard is a long-time probate practitioner who has served on hundreds of probate matters of all ...