Cumberland Legacy Law* provides the highest quality Estate Planning for clients in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon and Tennessee. Whether you need a sophisticated strategy for minimizing or avoiding estate taxes and providing maximum possible asset protection, or just a simple will or trust to ensure your assets are distributed in accordance with your wishes, or anything in between, we are here to help you and your loved ones.
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Nina Whitehurst, the owner of Cumberland Legacy Law, is a member of Wealth Counsel, Elder Counsel and the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, all national estate planning attorney organizations. She is continually upgrading and updating her knowledge of estate planning law through seminars and being an active member of several estate planning attorney email list serves. Her husband, Brian Whitehurst, is the firm's marketing coordinator. Nina Lamothe is the firm's documentation paralegal.
*Cumberland Legacy Law is not a public legal aid society.
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- Q. Can I claim a property verbally promised by my landlord after his death?
- A: I hate to be the bearer of bad news but you probably do not have a leg to stand on. Oral wills pertaining to real estate are not enforceable. And if he had no will at all, then the heirs are nearest blood relatives, not tenants. Sorry. You also probably cannot make a claim due to adverse possession because your possession all those years was permissive, not adverse.
What you can do is try a little harder to find the will he seems to have claimed to have made. Call estate planning and probate attorneys in your area to see if any of them has the will or even a copy of it. Also call the probate court and ask if anybody has started a probate case.
- Q. Can I use a doc service to file an affidavit of death and sell my father's house under a trust in California?
- A: An affidavit of death will not accomplish your goal. You need to record an updated certification of trust explaining that the former trustee has passed and you are now the trustee. It needs to be in recordable form of course and might also include the legal description and parcel number of the property to help with indexing.
- Q. How to resolve property tax issues and secure home ownership without funds?
- A: There is no easy answer to your predicament. The classic solution is to obtain a new loan to pay the taxes, but you will not be able to do that without title to the property. To obtain title you will need the help of a probate attorney. You might try calling your local legal aid society to see if you qualify for free legal assistance.
