Joint tenancy with right of survivorship (JTWROS) is a manner of holding title to real estate. If the land is owned as JTWROS, when one of the joint tenants dies and the death certificate is recorded in the county in which the land is located, the surviving joint tenants automatically own the land free from any [...]

What is Probate? Originally the term “probate” meant “to prove the Will,” but the term has grown to include the administration of the decedent’s estate. There are several ways to proceed in handling a given estate. Essentially an estate may be handled either (1) as a single “supervised” administration or (2) as a series of [...]