When you buy or sell a home, you'll encounter a stack of paperwork at closing. This includes the deed to the property, which is used to transfer ownership to the new owner. The most commonly used ...

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In some but not all states, if you own real estate when you die, the property will pass to your heirs through the probate process. More than 20 states, however, allow deeds to be registered in ...

A Transfer on Death Deed (TOD) is an instrument used to transfer ownership of real property at a later date – after the death of the record owner. It can be an effective tool in estate planning, thus ...

As a 70-year-old single person residing in Kentucky I ask why our commonwealth does not yet have a Transfer on Death Deed law unlike 30 other states and Washington D.C. Every time I read the published ...

The Transfer on Death Deed is an extremely powerful yet relatively simple estate planning tool available to individuals who own real property in Wisconsin. Everyone who owns real property in Wisconsin ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. True Tamplin is on a mission to bring financial literacy into schools. This article explores what a property deed is, the ...

A ladybird deed can be helpful for a lot of reasons. It can be used to avoid probate, because once the grantor dies, the grantee owns the property. earleliason / Getty Images There are a nickel’s ...