My Mom, Dad, Friend or Other Loved One Just Died, Now What Do I Do?

The probate and trust administration attorneys at Rochford & Langins, LLC will help give you peace of mind when you have lost a loved one.

Probate and trust administration can be time consuming, complex and emImage result for probateotionally draining. If you are the personal representative for a probate estate, or named as the trustee upon death in a trust – your parent, spouse, friend, business associate or sibling – has died and you have assumed the responsibility of administering their estate.

If you are the trustee of a revocable or irrevocable trust, you will be held accountable to the beneficiaries of the trust, and owe them a fiduciary responsibility. In most circumstances the trust can be administered without court intervention.

If, however, you are the personal representative in a probate estate, you are accountable not only to the beneficiaries but also to the probate court in the presiding jurisdiction.

The Rochester, Minnesota attorneys at Rochford & Langins, LLC will help alleviate some of the stress associated with the unknown of estate administration by staying in constant contact with you throughout the probate or trust administration. By maintaining open communication and answering your questions quickly, our lawyers have found that we are able to ease the anxiety many fiduciaries experience when administering a probate or trust administration. With most estate administrations our Rochester and Plainview, Minnesota attorneys, paralegals and staff will help guide you step-by-step through:

• The collection and management of the decedents assets;
• The payment of debts, taxes and expenses; and
• The distribution of estate property to beneficiaries.

The goal of our Rochester lawyers in any estate administration is to make a complex process as simple as we can for the personal representative or trustee. If you have been named the personal representative or executor of a probate estate, or the trustee of a trust, please contact one of our Rochester or Plainview estate administration attorneys today at 507-534-3119.