Wills, Trusts, and Probate Law for Paralegals


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With a focus on practice and portfolio development, this book provides a detailed approach to the substantive law of estate planning and administration. It includes examples of a variety of documents and step-by-step instruction on their preparation. Each chapter includes practitioner-oriented assignments (role-playing activities, research assignments, portfolio assignments etc.) and coverage of estate planning and estate administration is balanced throughout. A separate chapter is devoted to tax law and offers a closer look at this more complicated area of the law."







Using Wills


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Written by an expert geneaologist, this book guides beginners and experienced family historians alike through often complex historical records.







Researching British Probates, 1354-1858: Northern England


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Researching British Probates is a guide to the over 20,000 microfilm rolls of British wills and related documents in the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Housed in Salt Lake City, Utah, the collection is available through 1,700 branch libraries across the country and worldwide. Few depositories in Britain itself can compete with the collection's comprehensiveness: the microfilm spans six centuries and brings together bonds, wills, property inventories, guardianship papers and other documents that lie scattered throughout England. Now, by using this work, social historians and genealogists can obtain the exact rolls of microfilm they need.




The Practitioner's Handbook for Probate Real Estate


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This book includes step-by-step procedures showcasing the various facets of probate real estate sales, as well as diagrams that visualize these processes. It includes many suggestions and strategies to share with your real estate agent to maximize the return of each sale and mitigate your liability. The book reflects the author's experiences in probate, residential and commercial real estate sales, brokerage management, and business process management.Chapter 1: Defining ProbateChapter 2: Selecting Your Real Estate Agent Amidst a Probate PetitionChapter 3: Setting Expectations with Your Probate AgentChapter 4: Pre-Marketing Strategies for Probate PropertiesChapter 5: Cash for Keys Process and AgreementChapter 6: The Eviction ProcessChapter 7: Getting the Probate Property Ready for MarketChapter 8: Valuing the Probate PropertyChapter 9: Real Estate Disclosures in a Probate TransactionChapter 10: Marketing the Probate PropertyChapter 11: Probate Specific Terms in Purchase AgreementsChapter 12: Offer Management in a Probate TransactionChapter 13: Closing and Settlement in a Probate TransactionChapter 14: Simplified Probate ProceduresChapter 15: Title Vesting: Impact on Probate and Step-Up in BasisChapter 16: Insurance and Tax Implications of a Probate SaleChapter 17: An In-Depth Look at the Probate Process







The Making of a Market


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During the nineteenth century, Yucat&án moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucat&án and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been seen as another regional and historical example of overdependence on foreign markets and extortionary local elites. In The Making of a Market, Juliette Levy argues instead that local social and economic dynamics are the root of the region&’s development. She shows how credit markets contributed to the boom before banks (and bank crises) existed and how people borrowed before the creation of institutions designed specifically to lend. As the intermediaries in this lending process, notaries became unwitting catalysts of Yucat&án&’s capitalist transformation. By focusing attention on the notaries&’ role in structuring the mortgage market rather than on formal institutions such as banks, this study challenges the easy compartmentalization of local and global relationships and of economic and social relationships.