Tag: Probate Court
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When Parents Won’t Let Go: Micromanaging Homes in Family Trusts
Family trusts can be helpful estate planning tools. A trust can protect a household’s assets, and effectively pass wealth along to family members. Those who receive income or assets from a family trust are called beneficiaries. But some of the people who are supposed to benefit may not entirely appreciate the gesture. They might resent…
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Can I Take Another Person Off My Deed Without Telling Them?
The question of the day is: I need to take someone off my house deed. Can I do it without calling anyone’s attention to this? Spoiler alert: No. Nor can one owner create a new deed that doesn’t include the other co-owner in order to extinguish that other person’s ownership. No one gives up their…
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Guilty Pleas in Long Island: Heirs Recover Their Stolen Deeds
Two New Yorkers — and one is a former lawyer and a licensed notary — have pleaded guilty to deed fraud charges in New York. The charges involve first-degree scheming to defraud, and additional counts related to forging and filing false documents to take deceased people’s titles in Nassau and Queens. A company run by…
