The Fresno probate court was formerly very prompt. You could submit a petition and receive a hearing date within six to eight weeks. Everything moved right along. Not now. On February 7, 2023, we filed a petition to distribute an estate to two heirs. The heirs waived the accounting, and the estate is all cash, …
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The federal estate and gift tax has been law since World War I. In its simplest terms, it provides for the taxation of gifts made at death. A certain group of influential persons don’t like this tax, and have continually attacked it, using the pejorative label “death tax.” Like all taxes, the estate and gift …
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