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Delaware Debt Payment Priority
Delaware pays the spouse's $7,500 allowance before the funeral bill, and administration costs before both. The full order of preference.
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Delaware Digital Assets After Death
Delaware never adopted the revised uniform act. 12 Del. C. ch. 50 gives a fiduciary the same access the account holder had.
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Delaware Estate Planning Basics
Delaware estate planning runs on four documents. The will takes two witnesses, the power of attorney a notary and a witness.
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Delaware Estate Tax Rules
Delaware repealed its estate tax for deaths after 2017. A $10 affidavit outlived it, and the federal return starts above $15,000,000.
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Delaware Executor Duties
Delaware executor duties on the statute's clocks: qualify with the Register of Wills, file the inventory in 3 months, then the 8-month bar.
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Delaware Guardianship Planning
Delaware runs guardianship through two courts. What the Court of Chancery must find, the papers that avoid a petition, and what a case costs.
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Delaware Intestate Succession
Who inherits without a will in Delaware: the 12 Del. C. § 502 spouse share, the life estate in the real estate, and the 120-hour rule in § 504.
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Delaware Pet Trusts
12 Del. C. § 3555 validates a Delaware pet trust for animals living at your death. No dollar cap, no 21-year limit, and no court power to trim it.
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Delaware Power of Attorney
A Delaware power of attorney is not durable by default, and § 49A-105 takes a notary, one unrelated witness, a date and a signature.
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Delaware Probate Accounting
Delaware's inventory is due 3 months after letters, an account goes to the Court of Chancery yearly, and exceptions close at 3 months.
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