Arizona’s Probate SystemA state court system devotes time and energy into handling cases for its citizens. That includes probate cases. For example, Arizona’s...
Wouldn’t it be great if your family didn’t have to go to court to settle your estate? It’s possible to legally avoid putting your estate through...
When someone dies, what happens to their stuff? Financial accounts or insurance proceeds, may pass to beneficiaries right away. Other assets will be distributed...
After Someone Dies Their Estate Lives On – At Least Until The Probate Process Has Been CompletedWe’ve all heard about cases that drag on for years while...
What are the two most important parts of estate planning? This is the thing that gets right down to the heart of the issue.Most important part is, honestly,...
What are the four most common goals? The four most common objectives when you’re doing your estate planning? We talk with thousands of people, like every...
Probate’s a mess. What questions actually get asked in probate? It boils down to three things: Is there a valid will and is there a competing valid will?...
Probate has tons of weird rules. In Arizona, Rule 51 is one of the ones that catches people by surprise. Arizona Rule of Probate procedure Rule 51 says, you...
What are the probate rules in Arizona? There’s hundreds of them. So there’s two big sections of law that govern probate. The first one is our statutes,...
I know you’re wondering, how long does an executor actually have to wrap up a whole probate? What are the time limits around this? In Arizona probate...
On what grounds can somebody actually challenge a probate or a will? We’re doing a lot of internal training with my team right now, and I actually created...
Why do you have to wait six months after somebody passes away to distribute? The biggest reason is, well, there’s two big reasons. First, if you think you...
