Avoiding probate can save your beneficiaries time, reduce costs and protect their privacy while your estate is being settled. You can keep your Connecticut estate out of the probate court system by ...

Connecticut’s Northeast Probate Court has moved to a more accessible location in Putnam, near the town’s municipal buildings, officials said. Judge of Probate Gabrielle Labonte said this week that the ...

What are Connecticut legislators thinking? On one hand, they put in a new $20 million estate tax cap that sure seems like a naked bid to keep hedge funders in the state. You’d have to have assets of ...

When Bristol attorney Jodi Zils-Gagne swindled more than $100,000 from elderly and infirm clients, she hurt more than those people and their survivors, U.S. District Court Judge Vanessa Bryant said ...

"These forms are one part of a solution. They are not the end-all, be-all, but they are an important step in helping close the gap in access to justice," said Texas Supreme Court Justice Eva Guzman.

When you serve as the executor of a will, you’ll need to grapple with a lot of paperwork as you coordinate the distribution of assets and property. Rest assured that whatever step of the probate ...

N EW BRITAIN - A probate case has been opened for an 11-year-old girl who was found dead in New Britain, with her estate ...