Question: We don’t own our house as “joint” tenants; we are co-owners and are listed on our loan papers as co-mortgagors. I’ve read that in Oregon persons who are [...]

Question: My sister separated from her husband back in 2001 and never saw him again. They are technically still married. Now, even if she has her daughter as the sole beneficiary under her will, [...]

Question: We share a house with our daughter and son-in-law. They pay on the mortgage but the mortgage is in our name as we had better credit. In addition, the title to the house is in our [...]

Question: The love of my life died from Covid in mid-January. We were together for 15 years but for religious reasons we never “married.” He was just 38 years old. We were always both [...]

Question: My partner and I are in our 70’s and not married but all of our assets are in both our names. How will this affect us as far as our home if one was to have to go into a nursing [...]

Question: My husband is 65 and I’m 62. My husband is divorced with 3 living daughters, all adults with children of their own. Two of his daughters are estranged from us. I am widowed with 4 [...]

Question: If I live in New Hampshire and I want to get guardianship of my grandson who lives in California, how do I ask a California courts’ permission to start a guardianship in my state? [...]

Question: My husband and I are both in our mid sixties and his son suggested that we build a house on his property and offered to give my husband a life estate in the property. If my husband dies [...]

Question: We are in a half-century long loving and trusting (but not legally joined) partnership and are finding our end of life planning especially challenging. We cannot marry because one of us [...]

Question: I’m single, age 71, with no one able or capable to serve as my agent under a durable power of attorney. My concern is what happens if I become mentally incapacitated. I have [...]