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Probate process & timelines
Step-by-step guidance on probate — from opening the estate to final distribution. What personal representatives need to know.
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The estate that is not the house: the work nobody warns you about
The house gets the attention because it is the hardest single thing. The hours, though, go somewhere else entirely — dozens of accounts, two tax returns, a digital life with no keys, and a lot of certified copies. Here is the map.
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4 min
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What actually goes through probate — and why the house usually does
Families are told "the estate has to go through probate," and then discover half of it already moved without them. Here is what passes on its own, what doesn't, and why the house is almost always the piece that sets the schedule.
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7 min
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A personal representative's first 90 days, in order
A week-by-week breakdown of what Michigan probate actually asks of you in the first three months — and what families commonly get wrong.
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8 min