Probate is a court-supervised process to evaluate the contents of an estate and distribute them to beneficiaries. It is not necessary for the person who has died to bequeath an estate for probate to ...

A living trust is an estate planning tool that can allow you to maintain control over your assets, specify how they should be distributed and even protect them from legal challenges or financial ...

If the goal is to help children bypass probate, a living trust is only part of the strategy, not a catchall bucket for every ...