Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A friend died recently. He had no children and did not own much property. He did have a Will, though, leaving everything to his ...

You could have been named executor in a will or you could be a prospective buyer of what has been a family residence. From the perspective of an executor/executrix, selling the family house can be one ...

Clinical Science Laboratory was sued for breach of contract on Jan. 9 in Massachusetts Superior Court for Bristol County for alleged failure to pay a contractually obligated 'stock appreciation ...

Sometimes clients suggest ideas that lend themselves easily to columns. This column resulted from a comment by a client who had been asked by a relative if he would be willing to serve as executor of ...

A Cumberland County judge was right to slap a nearly $392,000 penalty on an ousted executrix who was found to have mismanaged her ex-mother-in-law's estate, a state appeals court has ruled. Claims by ...

Luahan S. and Thomas E. Herrington to Robert and Kathleen Sexton, property in Derry Township, $397,000. Buttonwood Rental LLC to The Howard at Danville LLC, property in Danville, $10,250,000. Mohamed ...

When someone dies, everything that he owns becomes known as his “estate.” This estate is the sum total of assets, debts and property owned and owed by the decedent (a legal term for the person who ...