Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

If you own property or real estate, you might consider passing it along to your heirs when you pass away. But you may not ...

I’m trying to determine the value of an interest in real estate in a complicated scenario. The original owner died without a will. He had been married two times, and his second wife is selling ...

A life estate is a special ownership arrangement that allows you to share a property with someone else. Each of the people in a life estate has an ownership interest in a piece of real estate — ...

A life estate provides a way to split the ownership of an asset and is useful for estate planning purposes. By creating joint ownership of an asset such as a family home, a typical life estate allows ...

I’m looking for help interpreting a life estate clause in a 2019 deed. It says: “Reserving to Louise a life estate in the above-said premises during the remainder of her lifetime and to receive her ...

Dear Monty: My mom put her house in my name and kept a life estate on it. She moved out several years later into an assisted living facility. She now claims the house still belongs to her. Did her ...

On Tuesday, in Brown v. Johnson, Record No. 0491-23-4 (Ct. App. Va. April 16, 2024), available here, the Court of Appeals of Virginia affirmed a decision from the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, ...