Probate Assistance

I think I understand, for the most part. My concern is that my mother has no assets. A house bought with my brother and that's all. A life insurance policy which is fair enough to pay funeral expenses and, possibly, a headstone. I am the eldest of his children, designated as beneficiary of the life insurance policy. She was on the support of the State 15 years ago. (In CT) will they try to apply what little confidence and let us struggling with funeral expenses? Her "estate" consists of the house which now belongs to my brother, "in survival." Any advice is greatly appreciated.

According to the state. It should not be necessary for approval. If the value of the estate is under $ 650K in California there is no registration at all. You can choose to have an approval, but why spend money?

Not sure ... My brother was in a house for 10 years in New York and the state paid for it and they made no claim against his insurance benefits to politics - but if your mom was on help 15 years ago and they not asked to repay - why the report anyway.

You do not know what type of assistance received from your mother, but this site could help clarify what is expected.

http://www.opm.state.ct.us/programs.htm

Probate is a legal process that settles the estate of a deceased person. This is not an attempt to confiscate the assets, but rather to ensure that assets are properly distributed. The approval will determine that you are the beneficiary of the insurance policy, and that the house passes to your brother in law as the mean titer was recorded. Based on what you describe, the process should be simple and fast, and you should have nothing to fear. As trustee, you obligation to provide documents and evidence to the Probate Court. The process may involve nothing more than your making a declaration with the county clerk describing the situation as you did above. That, approval may be withdrawn because the area is too small.

Probate is the process that the State is making the world go by if there is a will or no will of the deceased. If there is a trust in place, then the certification process is ignored. The way most of works approvals is similar to how the IRS determines how the estate tax is involved in the estate. All assets, including life insurance benefits deaths are included in the estate GROSS is the determining factor as to time or area is not large enough to be loaded into the process of probate or if any property tax is due.

As regards state aid, there is a good probability that the state requires that reimbursement will be paid by the heirs (you and your brother). Get a good lawyer and see if you can at least negotiate a settlement with the state on a lower amount. Make sure the lawyer listen to your situation without first bill you.

You will still get the insurance tax-free life, one thing you want to check your state is not the time or life insurance death benefits are exempt from creditors in the state of CA, it don ' is not, again if the state decided it wanted reimbursement for its assistance and life insurance TB is not protected against creditors, the courts might say that you must pay the State for insurance life. If it is protected, you do not have to worry about life insurance, but your brother may want to make plans on how to protect the house.

A house is an asset. The politics of life, if you are named as beneficiary on the polict, is NOT part of its assets, we will pay you directly.

But you have to go through the registration so that you can get legal permission to sell the house and distribute procedees (his hal.