Monroe County Register of Wills Kate Best, with assistance from the Veterans Affairs office and the county commissioners, announced a new program, the Veteran Probate Waiver Program, that is starting ...

The law would require Apple and Google to verify the age of app store users to give parents more control over the content ...

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At the same time, borrowers continue to carry historically high debt balances, making it increasingly common for an estate to be left with issues pertaining to outstanding credit cards, personal loans ...

A new law in Delaware raises the bar for how much legal red tape someone needs to navigate when distributing assets from a will. House Bill 333 was signed by Gov. Matt Meyer on June 10, and the new ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

The government has announced a significant increase in probate costs as part of a wider rise in court and tribunal fees. The new fees largely mirror inflation rises and come into force on 13 July, ...

Mention probate in a conversation about estate planning, and the reaction is often immediate: Avoid it at all costs. Yet probate is one of the most misunderstood processes affecting families and ...

Families are being issued with an alert after new data "confirms a consistent and accelerating increase in contentious probate activity over the past 15 years", with 11,328 caveats filed in 2025. The ...

More than half (56%) of U.S. adults have no estate planning documents, according to online willmaker Trust & Will. No will or trust, no medical or financial power of attorney (POA) and no HIPAA ...

A law firm has reported a 12% rise in the number of people paying £3 to block the administration of an estate for six months - which corresponds with official data showing an increase in the number of ...