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North Carolina exempt property explained. Learn how the spousal year's allowance sets aside $60,000 for a surviving spouse ahead of most creditor claims.
A guide to North Carolina probate accounting: the 90-day inventory, annual and final accounts, and how the Clerk of Superior Court reviews an executor's numbers.
North Carolina probate bond requirements explained. When the Clerk of Superior Court makes an executor or administrator post bond, when a will waives it, and the cost.
How North Carolina debt payment priority works: the nine classes under G.S. 28A-19-6, insolvent estate rules, the year's allowance, and personal liability.
North Carolina step-up in basis explained: inherited property gets a new basis at the owner's date of death. See how to calculate it and lower capital gains tax.
North Carolina surviving spouse rights explained: the sliding-scale elective share, the year's allowance, a life estate in the home, and the intestate share.
Pennsylvania has no state estate tax but does levy an inheritance tax on heirs. Learn the federal estate tax, the 2026 exclusion, and portability.
The Pennsylvania family exemption is a $3,500 allowance the surviving spouse can claim from estate property before most creditors during probate.
Pennsylvania probate accounting covers the inventory filed with the Register of Wills, formal Orphans' Court accounts, and the family settlement agreement close.
Pennsylvania probate bond rules. A resident executor named in a will often serves without bond, but the Register of Wills usually requires it for administrators.
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