Wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and probate procedures.
Georgia does not offer a one-page small estate affidavit tied to a dollar limit. This article explains the procedures the state uses instead: no administration necessary, year’s support, and asset-specific affidavits like the Form T-20.
What a revocable living trust does under Michigan law, the requirements for a valid trust, how to create and fund one, and how to amend or revoke it.
How Ohio handles small estates without a small estate affidavit: release from administration and summary release, the $35,000 and $100,000 limits, and how to apply.
What it takes to create a valid revocable living trust in North Carolina under Chapter 36C: the trust document, capacity and funding requirements, how to amend or revoke it, and how a funded trust keeps assets out of probate.
What a revocable living trust does in Ohio, the Ohio Trust Code requirements to create one, how to sign and fund it, and how to change or revoke it later.
How the collection-by-affidavit process works in North Carolina: who qualifies, the $20,000 and $30,000 limits, form AOC-E-203B, clerk filing fees, and how to close out the estate.
Probate in Washington is the superior court process for settling a deceased person’s estate. How it works, when nonintervention powers apply, and when small estates can skip it.
How New Jersey’s small estate affidavit works: the $50,000 spouse threshold, the $20,000 heir threshold, filing with the county Surrogate, and when formal administration is required instead.
How to use Michigan’s small estate affidavit (Form PC 598) to collect a decedent’s personal property without probate, plus the petition for assignment for estates that include real property.
Washington’s small estate affidavit transfers a decedent’s personal property under $100,000 without probate, 40 days after death, under RCW 11.62.010.
North Carolina imposes no inheritance tax and no estate tax on deaths in 2013 or later. Here is what that means for beneficiaries, and which federal and other taxes can still apply after a death.
A plain-language guide to the Virginia transfer on death deed: the statutory requirements, how to record it with the circuit court, how to revoke it, and what a beneficiary takes at the owner’s death.