A guide to settling an estate or administering a trust furnishes information on and procedures for handling the assets, debt, and property according to a decedent's wishes.

Today most of us are part of a highly connected digital world. If you're like many people, you have complicated digital entanglements, from physical devices with stored photos to online banking and social media accounts. The heavier the digital footprint, the more complicated it is to rein it all in. Yet, few people have considered how to untangle these digital legacies in the face of death. You probably have a will that outlines how you'd like to...

"Many of you, regardless of your feelings on the matter, will eventually be appointed as executor of your parents', spouse's, or another's estate. Just calling an attorney isn't enough. Settling a decedent's estate may require the combined expertise of accountants, appraisers, auctioneers, realtors, bankers, brokers, insurance companies, a myriad of bureaucrats, and, yes, even lawyers. Where do you start? How do you empty a house crammed with a lifetime's...

"When Rowland Sinclair receives word of his friend Daniel Cartwright's death, he sets out immediately from Singapore to Boston to honor the American millionaire's last wishes to execute his will. He is met with the outrage and anguish of a family spurned in favor of a missing heir about whom no one seems to have any knowledge-one Otis Norcross. As Rowly battles pressure from all sides to declare the mysterious heir non-existent, he finds evidence...