Talk:Estate (law)

I would like to find $outifapersondies,andleft13yrsofbacktaxesandleftitbehind,2ofthechildrenpaidallofthebacktaxesonthepropertyandhaveallthecurrentpaid....Whywouldtheynotbeabletoputthepropertyintheirname,,,,TexasThelandwasupforsalethruthe$ tax office and they paid them off before they auctioned it off.....

--166.109.0.172 (talk) 13:12, 6 October 2008 (UTC)<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text hereInsert non-formatted text here</nowiki> Jo Ann RomeroBold text jdy99erl@aol.com Houston, Texas

Jo Ann, it's not a good idea to give your e-mail address. You are likely to get a lot of spam (being sent to you or apparently by you). --Concrete Cowboy 17:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I was going to suggest the creation of a new page/article on "Decedent's Estates" to address those kinds of questions. Although I have found pages for "executor" and "administrator," I haven't found any source of information on decedent's estates in general, and it seems to be needed. Can anyone suggest any reason why I should not create such a page? Dan Evans Evansdb 12:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Only that the word "Decedent" may be unique to the US? I've never heard it before. In the UK, the term is "(the) Deceased". More at talk:Probate. --Concrete Cowboy 17:48, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

where would i find information about the illegal sale of property (house)by someone who appointed himself the executor of an estate and the property could not be sold? he made his own deed to the property and signed it over.(Cherylnina (talk) 23:44, 10 January 2009 (UTC))

Likeness

Does this also covers a persons likeness? For example, would this cover who owns the right to Elvis Presley's image and who can license it? TJ Spyke 02:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

personal estate

A very good friend of mine was going to purchase a boat from me, but before he could pay me, he was in an accident and died. my boat was on his property at the time, but it was still insured in my name, so i took the boat off the property for fear of vandalism and now the deceased family, which put the boat as part of his estate are stating that the boat belongs to him and now i have to deal with their lawyer, because they either want the boat or half of what he paid me. i say no to all of it. what is my legal right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.77.220.126 (talk) 04:48, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

This is badly explained

English texts routinely speak of estates as doing things (e.g., “The estate of writer X approved novel Y”), but when you search for the word sources say it means the set of property of a person minus liabilities. The thing is, that cannot be the meaning of the word because property cannot do things with intent (unless we are talking about slaves). So the term has to be better explained. 86.31.178.164 (talk) 23:06, 18 August 2024 (UTC)