Estate Administration

Common Disputes and How to Resolve Them

By James E. Hickmon, JD, MBA, CFP® / November 24, 2021 / Comments Off on Common Disputes and How to Resolve Them

[vc_row el_class=”container”][vc_column][vc_column_text]In my experience, there are only two or three things that truly create a hostile relationship and contention within a family during an estate administration process. What can lead to litigation in many instances is when one beneficiary feels they are entitled to more, or something different, than the other beneficiaries, even though the…

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What Is Probate And When Is Probate Triggered In North Carolina?

By James E. Hickmon, JD, MBA, CFP® / November 24, 2021 / Comments Off on What Is Probate And When Is Probate Triggered In North Carolina?

[vc_row el_class=”container”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Probate is the court-supervised process over which personal assets are transferred out of the individual names into the names of their heirs or beneficiaries after death. Whether you go through probate or not will be determined by the level of estate planning. If the descendent died with no will and no other estate planning…

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What Happens If Somebody Dies With Property But No Will?

By James E. Hickmon, JD, MBA, CFP® / November 24, 2021 / Comments Off on What Happens If Somebody Dies With Property But No Will?

It is a common assumption between spouses that at the death of the first spouse to die, the surviving spouse will inherit all the deceased’s property. This is usually not the case. If the individual or the deceased spouse has any children, whether from the first marriage or by the marriage to the surviving spouse,…

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Administration Of Proper and Intestate Estates

By James E. Hickmon, JD, MBA, CFP® / November 24, 2021 / Comments Off on Administration Of Proper and Intestate Estates

We can demonstrate the importance of estate planning by comparing two estates with different approaches to estate planning. On one side of the continuum, we have an individual who has assets but no estate planning. On the other end of the continuum, we’ll have someone who has assets of the exact same nature, but they…

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