Question: Is a life estate vested and effective if it’s created in a will which also requires the sale of the property (presumably terminating the life estate) and division of proceeds [...]

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: I have a question about my mother’s two-family house. It’s amazing that she has survived the pandemic and will be turning 104 in September. She is in a nursing home and is covered [...]

Question: My father remarried after my mother died. He was in his sixties. He owned our family home and had no mortgage or liens. He never put his second wife on the deed because he wanted to [...]

Question: I have been receiving Medicaid benefits for ten years and had no idea until recently that the state could seek money for medical expenses they paid for after I turned 55. I am 65 and am [...]

Question: If my sister and I inherited half of our dad’s house after he passed and then his wife went down to the courthouse and filed a life estate, is this legally binding? We had no [...]

Question: If my sister and I inherited half of our dad’s house after he passed and then his wife went down to the courthouse and filed a life estate, is this legally binding? We had no [...]

Question: Both of my parents had a life estate, deeded as tenants in common to my brother and myself as remaindermen. Our father passed in 2006 when home was assessed at $100,000. The life estate [...]