If your friend wants to do you a favor and leave you his home — and what a gesture! — he should not, I repeat not, put you on ...

Getting affairs in order may be a common New Year's resolution, but that can often involve uncommon legal documents. One such document is a beneficiary deed, which lets people name someone to ...

A grantee beneficiary is an individual or entity designated to receive certain assets, often in a trust or transfer-on-death deed arrangement, after the original owner dies. Unlike traditional ...

Having a will is, of course, a good idea. If someone dies without a will, known as an “intestate death,” property that is not ...

In addition, while a living trust does avoid probate, you also have to change the title to any property you want passed by the trust to the trust as owner or beneficiary: deeds, investment and ...

Deed of Trust is a document that pledges real property to secure a loan. The property is deeded by the title-holder (owner) to a trustee, which holds the title in trust for the beneficiary (the ...