Q: We want to include our grandchildren in our estate plan, but we have concerns about high schoolers receiving money. What ...

Justice Stephen Field wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court in the 1869 case of United States v. Kirby that “The reason of the ...

The Indian Supreme Court is set to review the legality of Muslims opting for secular succession laws over traditional Shariat without renouncing Islam. Naushad K K, a petitioner from Kerala, seeks ...

The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to examine whether a Muslim individual can opt to be governed by the Indian Succession Act, 1925, instead of Sharia ...

Last week, the executors of Ratan Tata’s estate filed a petition for probate before the Bombay High Court. In a related ...

A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar took note of a plea filed by Naushad K K, who hails from Kerala's Thrissur district, seeking to be governed by the succession ...

In In re Estate of Wright, decedent’s son appealed an order finding that his mother died intestate. No. 13-23-00043-CV, 2024 ...

As administrator or executor of your sister’s estate, you have a duty to notify the beneficiaries named in her will. If you have letters testamentary or letters of administration to establish ...

A lord ordinary has ruled that a woman who claimed that a farmer who died intestate had promised her the majority of his estate before his death had not established a legally binding engagement ...

Soon thereafter, I learned that my grandmother had been paying monthly premiums on a $10,000 life-insurance policy since 1986. I reached out to her insurance agent to ask why he never advised my ...

Estate planning can be complicated -- and not just for wealthy people. Though the word "estate" is often associated with the upper class, an estate is anything that will be left to heirs after ...