Many people will try to cut corners to try to save a few dollars. That could mean trying to paint your own house instead of hiring a professional painter, or maybe trying to do your own landscaping ...

A barely-legible handwritten document unearthed from Aretha Franklin’s couch cushions the year after her death was deemed to be a valid will by a Michigan jury on Tuesday. Following less than an hour ...

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 ...

People may decide to change their wills for many reasons, including getting married or divorced, having children, or a fallout with a sibling. People may decide to change their wills for many reasons, ...

Although much wealth passes today through trusts and beneficiary designations, we occasionally handle California probate disputes that turn on the validity of wills, sometimes involving high value ...

With the influx of new residents comes many out-of-state wills drafted under varying state laws. Whether out of state wills are valid under Florida law is a question being addressed in probate matters ...

A 2014 document handwritten by Aretha Franklin and found under a couch cushion after her death is a valid will, a jury decided Tuesday afternoon. The decision by the six-person jury capped a two-day ...

PONTIAC, Mich. — A Michigan jury on Tuesday decided that a four-page document written by legendary singer Aretha Franklin -- found in a couch cushion at her home months after her death in 2018 -- is a ...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has ...

A will can offer peace of mind for families before the death of a loved one, but the process can also go horribly wrong. It's been a rough few years for the Brigden family in Sydney. Tim Brigden's ...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A document handwritten by singer Aretha Franklin and found in her couch after her 2018 death is a valid Michigan will, a jury said Tuesday, a critical turn in a dispute that has ...