Wills, Trusts and Probate Law

Probate attorneys handling wills, trusts, and estate administration must typically advise their clients on matters such as beneficiary designation, how to form a life estate in property, what will happen to property if your client fails to make an estate plan, and more. FindLaw’s Corporate Counsel Center Law Library has law articles written to help you better understand specific estate planning techniques and when to consider forming a trust on your client’s behalf. If your client needs a living will or an advance health care directive, click on the articles below to help inform your research and learn the requirements of each state, such as the number of witnesses necessary and who can be designated as a health care surrogate.

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Wills, Trusts and Probate Law Articles

Living Trusts

"There is No Greater Gift You Can Give a Loved One than the Freedom a Living Trust Provides" Questions About Trusts? Trusts are created by people during their life time (Living Trusts) or in their Will (Testamentary Trusts). Trusts are legal ...
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Living Will/Advanced Medical Directives

Most people think of the story of Karen Ann Quinlan, the twenty-one year old who was put on life support systems. Her family had to petition the New Jersey Supreme Court to be permitted to allow her to "die with dignity". The Court did recognize ...
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Living Will

A Living Will refers to a person's written or oral indication of the types of treatments he or she wants to receive if he or she becomes ill and cannot communicate his wishes at that time. A person who does not want to receive artificial life ...
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Living Wills and Other Advance Directives

A living will is a brief declaration or statement that a person may make indicating their desire that certain medical treatment be either withheld or withdrawn under certain circumstances. The Missouri statute authorizing the creation of living ...
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Losing Control Through Joint Ownership of Property

Reprinted with permission of Khabar Magazine Here are two all too common scenarios: The first situation can be referred to as, "Double Trouble." The couple has exposed their most valuable asset to the liabilities of both partners, including the high ...
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Making Financing Easier

The typical non-recourse real estate loan is easy to describe. The borrower is the owner in fee simple of a piece of property. A lender agrees to lend money to the borrower, after satisfying itself that the value of the property is sufficiently ...
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Nebraska Johnson & Vaughan, P. C.

Your Estate is all of your property - real estate, cash, stocks, bonds, life insurance policies, cars, jewelry, household goods, family heirlooms, etc. It is a process, which includes a Court proceeding that establishes the legal transfer of ...
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New Bill Would Affect the Governance of Nonprofits

Congress enacted the American Competitiveness and Corporate Accountability Act (commonly known as "Sarbanes-Oxley") in response to widely reported corporate and accounting scandals. Sarbanes-Oxley's principal purpose was to restore public confidence ...
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New Chapter 14 Rules Affect Buy-Sell Agreements

On November 5, 1990 Congress enacted the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 ("OBRA"). Included within the myriad provisions of OBRA was Section 11601 which retroactively repealed the "estate freeze" provisions of Section 2036(c) of the Code ...
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New Jersey Trusts Can Now Be Perpetual

New Jersey has abolished its "rule against perpetuities" so that New Jersey "dynasty trusts" can now remain in place in perpetuity. New Jersey.s rule against perpetuities generally required a trust to terminate and vest its property in its ...
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