What should you do when a loved one dies? How and when does the estate get administered?
Administration is defined as Court-supervised distribution of an estate during probate. Also used to describe distribution process for a trust. Probate means proving the will, but it can also be used to indicate a court process to handle a deceased person’s estate.
When a loved one dies, there is often confusion and panic about what legal and financial steps should be taken by survivors. There may be little information about the finances of the decedent, and spouses or children are left to sort through what may seem like a never-ending mass of papers.
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