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Fraudsters, scammers, and predators have become increasingly creative and sophisticated in their attempts to take advantage of others, including their friends, colleagues, clients, and even their family members. Stay vigilant to avoid being victimized.

Keeping an error-free and detailed record can be challenging, but the extra time and money spent on accurate record keeping will be worth it in the end. An estate inventory and its accurate annual return are required by law in Georgia.

Heirs determination is a critical process to identify the rightful heirs of a deceased person who did not have a properly executed last will and testament in his or her lifetime. There are rules of inheritance that are specific rules in the state of Georgia that identify your heirs-at-law if you pass away intestate or without a will.

By legitimizing your fatherhood, you secure your child’s right to inherit from your estate through legitimation.

Discover the impact of Chadwick Boseman's estate without a will, including probate details, costs, and the importance of estate planning for protecting assets and privacy. Learn from his case study.

We understand that it feels hard to get around to estate planning; it sounds about as fun as getting a root canal. However, we also understand that we all want to make sure that our loved ones are protected and receive our hard-earned assets -regardless of whether we have $10,000 or $10 million.

Estate planning is the process of developing a strategy for the care and management of your estate if you become incapacitated or upon your death. One commonly known purpose of estate planning is to minimize taxes and costs, including taxes imposed on gifts, estates, generation-skipping transfer, and probate court costs.

You don't need to have a summer house on Lake Lanier or a private art collection big enough to rival the High Museum of Art to consider yourself the owner of an estate. In fact, virtually anyone who owns anything has an “estate” in the eyes of the law.

We at the Thompson Mungo Firm understand that no one wants to discuss death and dying. And yet, it's a critical time in everyone's life and one for which we know we need to prepare.

You May Not Think You Need a Will, But You Really Do. Most Americans do not have a simple will as part of their estate plan.