Estate planners need to rethink how they draft choice of situs provisions as reforms finally modernize 55-year-old trust law ...

After the 7 Investigators exposed an alarming practice in the local probate courts that often left legitimate heirs saying they felt ripped off after losing a loved one, Michigan’s Attorney General ...

Probate Initiation: An interested party, often a family member or creditor, petitions the probate court to open an intestate estate. Appointment of Administrator: The court appoints an administrator ...

The loss of someone close is an upsetting time that can be stressful and confusing from the start. In addition, when the aftermath involves settling an estate, the chaos seems to go from bad to worse.

With the Probate Registry set to handle a projected 350,000 applications a year, modernisation of the process is increasingly urgent. But digitisation is contingent on updating 37-year-old rules The ...