New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed a new law simplifying and modernizing service of process requirements for Surrogate’s Court proceedings.

When a person dies, they might expect their remaining assets to follow a common sense line of succession, passing first to their spouse, then to their children. But even when these lines of succession ...

That's exactly what happened to Margaret Miller after her husband, David, unexpectedly died only two years after they put their shared assets in a revocable living trust, the Cape Gazette reports.