The process of administering a person’s estate typically adds stress and other complications to an already difficult time. The necessary steps to administer an estate and determine an inheritance, is largely determined by the estate planning decisions that were made during the lifetime of the person, knowingly or unknowingly.
Estate administration often involves preparing many time-sensitive forms and making decisions that have tax and other serious consequences, including accounting for and valuing assets, changing title of the deceased’s property to the heir(s), electing a payout under a retirement plan and paying taxes to state and federal authorities.
The administration of an estate can be very complex because it often involves several different bodies of law, including property, probate and tax. For example, some assets that are included in the taxable estate, are not included in the probate estate, while other property is not included in either the probate, or taxable estate of a deceased person.
We work to alleviate the difficulties of the estate administration process. Our experienced probate attorneys offer the following estate administration legal services:
Our attorneys have years of experience as tax and probate attorneys to assist with the administration of your loved ones estate. Do not go through the estate administration process alone; contact us today.