Save your family money, time and headaches with a few easy steps.
Probate can drag on for years, and can easily cost your family thousands of dollars- money that would otherwise have gone to them.
Attorney Mary Randolph details eight key strategies to avoiding the probate money pit- including how to:set up payable-on-death bank accounts-name a beneficiary for retirement accounts-register stocks & bonds- and vehicles- in transfer-on-death forms-hold property in joint ownership-take advantage of special procedures for small estates-create a living trust-give away property now