In law school one of my professors told my class there are three basic rules underpinning all estate planning: Everybody dies. When you die, other people get your stuff. Without a will or other estate plan, the law says who gets your stuff. I don’t think anything in...
Though different in form, like many of our western neighbor states Oregon offers a simpler, more streamlined alternative process for settling the more modest estates of some decedents. Oregon’s “small estate affidavit” allows for the transfer of property of a...
