How to Avoid Probate in Massachusetts
The main ways Massachusetts assets pass outside probate: beneficiary designations, joint ownership with survivorship, and revocable living trusts, plus voluntary administration for small estates.
Estate Planning
Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and probate procedures.
Revocable Living Trusts in Massachusetts: How to Set One Up
A revocable living trust in Massachusetts lets you hold assets under terms you can change while alive and pass them outside probate. Here is how to create and fund one under the Massachusetts Uniform Trust Code, and what it does and does not do.
Does Arizona Have an Estate or Inheritance Tax?
Arizona charges no estate tax and no inheritance tax. Here is when the federal estate tax applies and how inherited property is taxed.
Arizona Beneficiary Deed: Transfer Real Estate, Skip Probate
An Arizona beneficiary deed passes real estate to a named beneficiary at death without probate. Here are the ARS 33-405 requirements, recording steps, and revocation rules.
Arizona Small Estate Affidavit: Limits and How to File
How Arizona’s small estate affidavit lets successors collect personal property up to $200,000 and real property up to $300,000 without opening probate.
How to Complete a Massachusetts Health Care Proxy Form
A step-by-step look at creating a valid Massachusetts health care proxy under M.G.L. c. 201D: who can be your agent, the two-witness signing, when authority begins, and how to revoke it.
Massachusetts Estate Tax: The $2 Million Threshold and Rates
How the Massachusetts estate tax works as of 2026, the $2 million filing threshold, the graduated 0.8% to 16% rate schedule, the $99,600 credit, what property counts, and how to file Form M-706.
New Jersey Revocable Living Trust: Setup and Funding
How to set up a revocable living trust under the New Jersey Uniform Trust Code: validity requirements, funding, tax limits, and how to amend or revoke it.
Massachusetts Estate Planning: Wills, Trusts, and Probate
A plain-language overview of estate planning in Massachusetts: wills, intestate succession, trusts, powers of attorney, health care proxies, the state estate tax, and probate.
Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care: How to Make One
A plain-language guide to Georgia’s advance directive for health care: naming a health care agent, stating treatment preferences, the witnessing rules, and how to revoke it.
Estate Planning in Arizona: Wills, Trusts, and Probate
A plain-language map of estate planning in Arizona: valid wills, intestate succession, probate, beneficiary deeds and living trusts, incapacity documents, and estate taxes.
How to Avoid Probate in New Jersey
The main ways property passes to heirs outside probate in New Jersey, beneficiary and POD/TOD designations, survivorship ownership, revocable living trusts, and small-estate affidavits, and what avoiding probate does not change.