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Kentucky probate accounting duties: the 90-day inventory, the periodic and final settlement under KRS 395.610, and the two-year bar after the discharge order.
How Kentucky probate works in the District Court: appointing a personal representative, the 90-day inventory, the six-month creditor bar, and small estates.
Kentucky probate timeline and statutory deadlines: the 90-day inventory (KRS 395.250), the six-month creditor claim period under KRS 396.011, and closing.
In Kentucky a small estate can settle through a District Court order dispensing with administration, while a full estate usually needs a lawyer for court work.
How a Kentucky revocable living trust works: create it under the Kentucky Uniform Trust Code, fund it by retitling assets, and add a pour-over will.
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.
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