Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...
What is probate? Probate is the legal process for reviewing, managing and distributing someone’s estate after they die. The purpose of probate is to verify the validity of your estate plan. It ...
When planning for the transfer of assets after death, two terms come up often: probate and trust. Probate is the court-supervised process of validating a will, paying debts and distributing assets to ...