probate

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If this property is indeed still titled in your parents’ names, and was never actually deeded to the trust, it could still be a probate asset under the executor’s control.

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Such a trust would help your family avoid probate after your mother is gone.

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A trust, often used to avoid probate and delays settling the estate, is for more complicated estates.

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It could also be expensive if your family has to hire a probate lawyer, and the whole process will be part of the public record.

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In the probate filing, which is in the public domain, she is listed as “interested person.”

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