probate

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Creditors often find it more cost-effective to write off smaller debts than to pursue them through the formal probate process, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Crucially, a trust would help your executor, or the administrator of your estate, to avoid probate.

From MarketWatch

Payable-on-death avoids probate — a public, cumbersome and time-consuming process — and it simplifies your estate planning when the time comes; more than that, it’s private.

From MarketWatch

The best part about putting their respective inheritances in a trust is that the trust will bypass probate.

From MarketWatch

If you list your daughter on a transfer-on-death or beneficiary deed, it would go to her immediately and thereby means the property would not pass through probate, which can be lengthy, public and time-consuming.

From MarketWatch