It often happens that a loved one gets injured, or sick. As we get older, many diseases can affect us, and our ability to handle the affairs of our daily lives and those diseases can get progressively worse as people age. You may reach the point where you just do not think that your elderly […]

If you think something is wrong with an estate, or you feel that the deceased may have been manipulated, under duress, or coerced and that as a result you were wrongfully left out of a will or estate plan, you may think about challenging the estate. How long will that take? As you can imagine, […]

You may hear the advertisements on TV: “Get a reverse mortgage!” Reverse mortgages can help you, especially if you are older. But what are reverse mortgages, and can they be used in or do they have any role in estate planning? How Reverse Mortgages Work Normally, when you have a mortgage, you pay the mortgage. […]

How To Contest An Estate In Illinois Let’s say that you are a beneficiary in someone else’s will in Illinois, or at least, that you expect to be a beneficiary. The time comes to administer the estate, and you come to find that in fact, you have been left out of the will, or else, […]