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How step-up in basis works on inherited property in Kentucky: IRC 1014 resets basis to date-of-death value, cutting the capital gain you owe when you sell.
Kentucky keeps dower and curtesy, not a UPC elective share. A surviving spouse can renounce the will under KRS 392.080 within six months of probate.
How a Kentucky successor trustee settles a revocable trust after death: 60-day beneficiary notice, accounting, paying debts, and distribution under KRS 386B.
How to contest a will in Kentucky: the grounds, who can file, and the two-year window to bring an original action in Circuit Court under KRS 394.240.
Kentucky will requirements: sound-mind and age-18 capacity, a signed writing, two witnesses who sign together, self-proving affidavits, and holographic wills.
Yes, you can sell inherited property in Kentucky. Clear title with the probated will or an affidavit of descent, check the inheritance tax, then close.
Yes, you can sell an inherited West Virginia home. Heirs or devisees hold title, and a personal representative sells only to pay debts or if the will allows.
West Virginia ancillary probate clears a nonresident's real estate: record a foreign will before the county commission under Code 41-5-13, or avoid it.
How West Virginia creditor claims work: the county commission clerk publishes a notice of administration, and creditors get 60 days from first publication.
West Virginia pays a decedent's debts in the order set by W. Va. Code 44-2-21. Learn the seven classes and what happens when an estate cannot cover them all.
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