Roughly two-thirds of Americans are estimated to die without executing a valid will. As a result, assets in their name will pass under the laws of intestacy of their home state. The laws of intestacy ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor ...

A change to Pennsylvania law taking effect Jan. 23, will end a decades-old practice that directed the estates of ...

Estate planning is the process of transferring the management of your assets if and when you are unable to manage them yourself due to disability or death. Whether you have $100 or $100 Million you ...

A. We’re sorry to hear of your loss. When a person dies without a will, the state laws of intestacy govern the distribution of the estate. But the laws of intestacy ...

A Monmouth County judge stretched the doctrine of probable intent beyond its limits by allowing establishment and funding of supplemental benefit trusts for an intestate decedent’s disabled children, ...