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Total questions: 3323

How do you find out if someone has a life insurance policy on you?
Popularity: 769

Who is responsible for your credit card debt after your death?
Popularity: 745

Should you rewrite your will and designate a guardian while still pregnant?
Popularity: 176

Is the survivor of a deceased person obligated to pay off any debts solely in the deceased's name?
Popularity: 146

How do you get a clear deed to 'paid in full' property when the seller dies before it can be transferred?
Popularity: 142

What are the legal rights if someone cosigns for a CAR and dies before the note is paid in full?
Popularity: 137

Are the surviving adult children responsible for paying off the debts of the deceased including a mortgage when there is no estate?
Popularity: 136

What is a revocable trust?
Popularity: 114

Does your parent have the right to postpone your receiving your other deceased parent's life insurance from the age of 18 to the age of 21 if they wanted to?
Popularity: 106

How long do creditors have to come in and try to claim assets owed to them that were previously charged off from an estate?
Popularity: 103

If your brother is older than you and because he is a man does he have to sort out your deceased father's will?
Popularity: 101

What are the laws in Texas when someone dies without a will?
Popularity: 101

Is land quitclaim deeded to a dependant upon a parents death a taxable transaction?
Popularity: 101

Who is responsible for a deceased mother's credit card debt which was in her name only?
Popularity: 98

In Texas if you relinquish your parental rights are those children entitled to part of your estate if they are not named in your Will?
Popularity: 97

Can a fiancee file to be the administrator of the estate for her fiance if he died without a will?
Popularity: 97

Could administration of an estate be granted prior to death in Connecticut in 1723?
Popularity: 96

Can the executor of an estate give permission to his friends to access the estate property and can beneficiaries do the same?
Popularity: 95

If your spouse dies without a will and the home was not titled in both names will the surviving spouse become the sole owner of the property.?
Popularity: 93

How can a life estate legally be reversed or amended?
Popularity: 92

If your wife deceased while incarcerated and her stepfather insists on claiming her body how can you stop him?
Popularity: 92

How long do you have to answer a will?
Popularity: 91

What happens when your sister is the executor and she has spent some of your mom and dads estate?
Popularity: 90

How do you obtain power of attorney over a parent?
Popularity: 89

If the sibling who is named as executor by a parent refuses to perform the duties of executor how can other siblings have access to family memorabilia and documents?
Popularity: 88

How do you find out if your kids are entitled to any kind of death benefits after their father died?
Popularity: 88

What can you do when you are an heir to an estate but your sibling is the executor and you suspect misappropriation of funds in Texas?
Popularity: 88

What can you do in North Carolina if your mother just died two months ago and her car was repossessed 3 days ago without warning?
Popularity: 87

Can children of a deceased parent be allowed access to the parent's apartment even if they are not the executor?
Popularity: 87

What should you do with the car that belonged to the deceased?
Popularity: 87

Your sister is the conservator to your mother your sister takes care of her and her finances can you check where and how the money is spent?
Popularity: 86

Are the children parent's responsiblity?
Popularity: 86

When a person dies and has life insurance is there a way to find out how much money was left to the beneficiary if you are not the beneficiary?
Popularity: 86

What happens if the testator gets divorced after making the will?
Popularity: 85

If a 72-year-old veteran is convicted of attempted murder in the 1st degree does it nullify his military funeral entitlement?
Popularity: 85

If someone died and left a house with a mortgage in a trust can you just keep making the house payments or do you need to notify the mortgage holder and can they demand the note be paid in full?
Popularity: 84

Can the beneficiary on a life insurance policy be changed by the executor?
Popularity: 84

What rights does a spouse have at a time of death with a will by Colorado law?
Popularity: 84

When someone dies in your family how do you find out who their lawyer was or what property they owned?
Popularity: 82

How do you find out your dead father's Survivorship Records?
Popularity: 81

If you received money from a sibling after he refinanced his home to pay off the share of an estate entitled to you are taxes owed on this money?
Popularity: 81

If a person dies in Virginia are the stepchildren considered as heirs?
Popularity: 80

As your mother's general power of attorney and with the house deeded to your brother sister and you as tenants in common with your mother's life estate can you sell it with your signature only?
Popularity: 80

How do you receive land given to you in a will?
Popularity: 79

Do the remains of the deceased become part of the estate or should they be turned over to the heirs. What are the obligations of the executor.?
Popularity: 78

What can I do about my sister who is the executrix of my parents will. She will not release the monies in the estate because she is demanding somethings I have from their house which was split equally?
Popularity: 77

If your lawyer never offically transfered the deed of your dad's house to you can you begin the sales process without that document or can you file for emergency transfer in New York?
Popularity: 76

Your brother is executor to your our will your parents will was that you share and share alike but he is conducting rental property as a buisness is that legal?
Popularity: 76

What happens if the executor of a will dies and the person who receives the residual estate also dies?
Popularity: 75

Do you have to pay taxes on an inheritance of 100000 or more?
Popularity: 72

If you live in Ohio and your in-laws died leaving all assets to your husband is it half yours if you had to finish paying off their house and car after their death and no cash was involved?
Popularity: 72

In Virginia how can an heir make a 'deadbeat' trustee execute a trust?
Popularity: 72

What should you do if the daughter's name is not on anything and the father had a stroke and no longer wants the responsibility of owning his property and wants to give his property to his daughter?
Popularity: 71

Mom the executrix of grandma's estate is paying for your cousins' therapy using money from the estate - this is not a condition of the will - is this legal while the estate is still in probate?
Popularity: 70

What could be the consequences when a person dies intestate owing debts and his personal and real property is distributed according to his verbal wishes and not through probate procedure?
Popularity: 70

What is the fee an executor of an estate receives in Wisconsin?
Popularity: 69

Do children from a first marriage have any legal rights to properties owned by their recently deceased father?
Popularity: 69

What happens to your fathers house when he remarries and he dies and the house is in his name and your mothers name?
Popularity: 66

What can you do your dad passed suddenly intestate he and his sibling are on the deed of what was their parents house does his share pass to your mother if not what can be done?
Popularity: 66

Does a sibling whose name was added to bank accounts when she had power of atty have to include these assets as part of the estate when executing the will?
Popularity: 64

What are you entitled to when your spouse dies?
Popularity: 64

If your parents' will left their estate to you and two siblings but your sister took a lot of personal things can she do that?
Popularity: 63

What happens when someone has been approved for a mortgage but dies before the sale closes?
Popularity: 62

Can an heir take out a loan against an estate in probate if the other heirs object?
Popularity: 62

Why did your question disappear even though it had not been answered?
Popularity: 61

How do you get a copy of an Accounting of the Estate of your deceased father?
Popularity: 61

If you sell your father's house do you have to give money to his girlfriend who has a life estate in the house?
Popularity: 60

What are the rights of the natural heirs if their father was married to his wife for just a few weeks before he passed away?
Popularity: 60

Is the estate responsible for medical bills after death of the person?
Popularity: 59

What happens when someone passes away and there are no family members of the person who has died?
Popularity: 59



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