A small estate affidavit in Ohio is a legal document that allows an estate to be settled without going through the lengthy probate process. In Ohio, an estate qualifies as "small" if the total value ...

Many shrug their shoulders about estate planning. They feel they don’t have an estate because they aren’t wealthy. They also think probate, whatever that is, sounds too complex. An estate consists of ...

Properly navigating a probate administration in any one state can be challenging enough, but often the client’s estate—and the attorney’s practice—is not so neatly confined within one state’s ...

Continuing last month's topic about settling small estates. Title 20, Section 3101 of the Probate, Estates and Fiduciaries Code is titled "Disposition Independent of Letters" and provides an ...