Putting your home in a trust can protect your assets while you’re alive and make the ownership transfer easier after your ...

Signing well-designed last wills and revocable living trusts is just the beginning of a longer process to create an “ideal ...

Typically the settlor of a revocable living trust is also the initial trustee until they either resign or are unable to manage the affairs of the trust due to incapacity or death.  While the ...

He shares how the probate process caused tension between his siblings. He also harbored frustration over one unanswerable ...

The inheritance of Gene Hackman’s estate has been called into question following revelations that his 3 children are not ...

Gene Hackman appointed his wife, Betsy Arakawa Hackman, as the beneficiary to his $80 million estate, but her death opens the ...

As its name suggests, a revocable trust, also called a revocable living trust, gives you the right to make changes to or ...

Here are six simple steps to help you get started: Unlike a revocable trust, an irrevocable living trust cannot be modified once established. Since the assets are no longer in the grantor's ...

Wills merely transfer assets to specified beneficiaries at the time of death with no strings attached, he says. While revocable trusts are often seen as something used by people with sizable assets, ...