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Rhode Island digital assets pass under chapter 33-27.1. A custodian gets sixty days, and the personal representative needs a probate court finding first.
Rhode Island estate planning runs on four documents. Marriage revokes an older will, a power of attorney needs durability wording, and health care takes two.
Rhode Island taxes a 2026 estate above a $1,838,056 gross estate, and every estate files Form RI-706 within nine months. There is no inheritance tax.
Rhode Island executor duties in order: qualify in your city or town, post bond, file the 90-day inventory, run the six-month creditor window, then close.
Rhode Island exempt property has no dollar cap. R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-10-1 gives the family wearing apparel outright plus the furniture the court finds necessary.
Rhode Island's family allowance under R.I. Gen. Laws § 33-10-3 names no dollar figure. The probate court fixes a reasonable sum for up to six months of support.
Rhode Island lets nobody name their own future guardian. Limited guardianship is the statutory default, and the documents you sign now can stop the petition.
Who inherits without a will in Rhode Island: the spouse's life estate in the real estate, the $150,000 set-off, and the $50,000 personalty rule.
A Rhode Island pet trust runs on R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-23-1, which sits in the animal title rather than the probate title. The state has no Uniform Trust Code.
Rhode Island is a magic-words state. A power of attorney survives incompetency only if it carries the wording R.I. Gen. Laws 34-22-6.1 asks for.
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