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Originally Posted by PorscheGAL
Here in sc having a will or not doesn’t matter much. It will go through 1 year probate. A judge will choose. The only way to avoid that is a trust.
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Really?
My parents both had wills. Mom died several years before dad, so he took care of that. When my dad died, I was the executor, and had to call a lawyer and go to court once and swear before a judge I would do the duties of the executor and carry out the wishes of my dad to the best of my ability. The paperwork was filed, and the slow process of closing everything started. It was about 10 months of work to get it all done. Nothing moves fast.
The lawyer was at the courthouse all the time anyway for other clients. He went before the judge and filed the final paperwork for me so I was saved having to get dressed up to go before a judge. The moment the judges gavel hit, the estate was closed, done and over.
It was not a large estate at all. Mostly a 1,000 square foot house built in 1930s and his car. He lived off of his retirement from the Air Force.