Probate is a pricey, stressful, time consuming procedure that lots of estates should go through upon the death of a liked one. Thankfully, with appropriate estate planning utilizing Revocable Living Trusts, it is absolutely possible to prevent probate. As a Cleveland, Akron location estate planning attorney, we assist customers avoid probate and save countless dollars on probate costs, minimize the tension and trouble of litigating, and make the loss of a loved one a lot easier to handle.

Probate Court is a court in every county that handles numerous family law concerns. In this case, we are concentrated on the Court of probate’s jurisdiction over decedent estates. Decedent estates are consisted of all possessions that a private owned personally upon their death. I routinely practice in Cuyahoga County Probate Court, Summit County Probate Court, Medina County Court Of Probate, Lorain County Court Of Probate, and all surrounding areas.
Probate court needs an administrator to file numerous types with the Probate Court with the objective of determining all of the decedent’s possessions, paying all of the decedent’s debts and after that distributing the rest of the decedent’s possessions to the recipients. In a probate estate administration, this is all public and each form will be offered to the general public. That means all of your personal monetary information will be readily available to all your nosy neighbors and possible creditors. If you use Valente Law as your estate planning attorney to develop a Revocable Living Trust based estate plan, you can keep all of your details private!

Probate estate administration is costly. The administrator is entitled to fees for serving as executor. The fees are set by statute and begin at 4% of the very first $100,000 dollars in personal possessions. That’s $4,000 simply on the first $100,000, and there will be more charges for larger estates. The executor is most likely going to require a lawyer. The attorney will charge a comparable cost. Now you are up to $8,000 in probate charges, simply on the very first $100,000! What a waste of loan! The bright side is, these charges can be avoided with a Revocable Living Trust-based estate plan.