Joy Powers woke from a horrific car wreck to find she’d been appointed a guardian and stripped of her rights. Months later, court-appointed fees drained her life savings Credit: Photos by Michael ...

When planning for the transfer of assets after death, two terms come up often: probate and trust. Probate is the ...

Probate is the administrative process used to move official ownership of a deceased person’s possessions, known as assets, to other people. When someone dies having signed a valid will, the probate ...