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New Hampshire trust administration runs on RSA 564-B: three 60-day notice clocks, yearly beneficiary reports, and a one-year claim bar only a trustee can use.
How to contest a New Hampshire will: the grounds RSA 552:7 names, who counts as an interested party, and the six-month re-examination window.
New Hampshire will requirements under RSA 551:2: age 18 or married, sane mind, a signed writing, two credible witnesses, no handwritten wills, no notary.
New Hampshire real estate passes to heirs at death, but selling from an open estate takes written consent under RSA 559:18 or a license under RSA 559:1.
Connecticut's family allowance under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 45a-320 has no cap and no minimum. The Probate Court allows whatever it judges necessary for support.
Rhode Island has no transfer-on-death deed, and a deed to two people is a tenancy in common. Here is what actually keeps property out of Probate Court.
Rhode Island keeps its advance directive in two separate documents with different witness rules, and no statute lets your family decide if you sign neither.
An out-of-state decedent who owned Rhode Island land files in the city or town where it sits. R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-7-8 sets venue, and § 33-22-21 sets the fee.
Rhode Island gives creditors six months from the first publication of the fiduciary's qualification, not from the date of death, under R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-11-5.
Rhode Island ranks estate debts in nine classes under R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-12-11, after the charges of administration and the family allowance come off the top.
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