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2. What To Do If You Are the Executor of a Will - AOL

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   When probate is required, the executor of the estate must file papers with the local probate court, prove the will is valid and present the court with a list of assets and debts and a description ...

3. Probate - Wikipedia

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   For example, life insurance and retirement accounts with properly completed beneficiary designations should avoid probate, as will most bank accounts titled jointly or made payable on death. [33] Some states have procedures that allow for the transfer of assets from small estates through affidavit or through a simplified probate process.

4. Attestation clause - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, attestation clauses were formally introduced into probate law with the promulgation of the first version of the Model Probate Code in the 1940s. Statutes that authorize self-proved wills typically provide that a will that contains this language will be admitted to probate without affidavits from the attesting witnesses.

5. How to prevent your investment assets from going into probate

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   Beneficiary designations are a simple, yet effective way to prevent assets from health savings accounts (HSA) and 401(k)s from going into probate. Naming one or more beneficiaries takes just a few ...

6. Estate planning - Wikipedia

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   Estate planning may involve a will, trusts, beneficiary designations, powers of appointment, property ownership (for example, joint tenancy with rights of survivorship, tenancy in common, tenancy by the entirety), gifts, and powers of attorney (specifically a durable financial power of attorney and a durable medical power of attorney).

7. Abatement of debts and legacies - Wikipedia

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   For example, if James's will states that he is leaving $500,000 to his son Sam then the money would be a general devise. A demonstrative devise, is money given from a particular account. For example, "$10,000 to be paid from the sale of my GM stock." A residual devise is one left to a devisee after all specific and general devices have been ...