Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:01:14 An estate planning lawyer can provide many benefits for a client. Estate laws are complex. They’re always changing. They vary from state to state. An estate planning lawyer can ensure with their legal expertise that your estate plan complies with current laws. Also, an estate...
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Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:01:08 I would say there is no right age to establish a will or a trust. I would say, you know, obviously the sooner the better. That could be as young as 18 years old depending on your assets and your objectives. Triggering events to establish...
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This transcript was auto-populated. Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:01:07 If an individual dies with assets in their sole name or payable to their estate that are equal to or less than 50,000, then a small estate may be proper administration. Small estate administrations are initiated in the county where the...
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This transcript was auto-populated. Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:01:08 If someone dies without a will in Tennessee and they have assets in their sole name or payable to their estate, then their estate is subject to Tennessee’s intestate laws of succession. If someone dies in Tennessee with a surviving spouse...
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This transcript was auto-populated. Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:01:06 The first thing that any court must do is make a determination of which assets are owned by the parties are part of the marital estate and which assets are their separate property. For the most part, anything that a party...
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This transcript was auto-populated. Transcript: 00:00:00 – 00:01:12 A parenting plan in Tennessee is for children of divorce in which a court is going to lay out the day-to-day parenting schedule. It will also lay out who is going to make decisions about the children’s future. And those are...
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This transcript was auto-populated. Transcript: If your ex has an alimony obligation that they are refusing to pay, the way we resolve those cases is by filing a petition for civil contempt. There’s two types of contempt in Tennessee. Uh, one of those is called criminal contempt and one...
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This transcript was auto-populated. Transcript: The way Tennessee handles alimony is a number of different ways. There are in Tennessee four different forms of alimony. And the purpose of transitional alimony is to help a spouse transition out of divorce. And what that is supposed to mean is that...
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This transcript was auto-populated. Transcript: The only assets subject to probate are assets in the individual’s sole name or payable to their estate. Other assets, jointly held assets pass automatically to the surviving joint owner at the individual’s death. Doesn’t matter what your will says or if you have...
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This transcript was auto-populated. Transcript: Probate is a court supervised process of administering an individual’s assets after they pass. Probate is initiated in the county where the individual resided at the time of their death by filing a petition to open their estate and appoint a personal representative. The...
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