Search probate guides, practical articles, and estate settlement resources.1563 in-depth guides • 105 blog posts
How to avoid probate in Mississippi: survivorship accounts, POD designations, beneficiary forms, the transfer-on-death deed, and small estate affidavits.
How to avoid probate in Tennessee: survivorship titling, POD and TOD accounts, beneficiary forms, living trusts, and the small estate petition.
Louisiana has no transfer-on-death deed. Avoid succession with POD/TOD accounts, beneficiary designations, a funded living trust or donations.
How a Louisiana advance directive and living will work: the declaration concerning life-sustaining procedures, two-witness signing, registry, and surrogates.
How Louisiana guardianship works as tutorship for minors and interdiction with a curator for adults, plus the planning tools that can keep a court out of it.
Who inherits under Louisiana intestate succession: a spousal usufruct over community property, separate property by class, plus forced heirship rules.
Louisiana power of attorney is a mandate or procuration: durable by default, the form rules that apply, the acts that need express authority, and how it ends.
How Louisiana succession creditor claims work: presenting and proving claims, tableau of distribution, statutory payment order, and representative liability.
Louisiana succession process guide for district court and Clerk of Court filing, judgment of possession, small succession, costs, and forced heirship.
Louisiana succession representative duties: take the oath, get letters, file the sworn descriptive list, pay debts by tableau, and account to district court.
Take our free assessment to understand your probate options and get personalized guidance.