Welcome to Probate, Trust & Estate!

Thank you for visiting probatetrustandestate.com. We are here to help you with any questions related to probate, trust and estate liquidation. We are a real estate firm with over 40 years of dedicated experience in the greater Los Angeles real estate market and we specialize in selling inherited real estate. The first thing to discuss is whether or not the property to be inherited has a trust or will. Often times if there is no trust the property must be liquidated through the legal process of probate.

legal terms used in probate

You will need to learn a lot of legal terms to understand what to do in probate. For example, the property that a person leaves behind when they die is called the “decedent’s estate.” 

• Decedent: the person who died

• Estate: the property the person owned when they died

• Intestate succession: the laws that say who inherits something if the person did not have a will or trust

• Verify: Most documents filed in a probate court must be verified, that is, sworn or affirmed to be true “under penalty of perjury."