If you live in North Carolina and wish to take advantage of a sales tax holiday near you, try shopping in one of these five nearby states. They all have tax-exempt weekends scheduled for 2018. Alabama will hold a severe weather tax free holiday on Feb. 23 â 25, 2018.
All of these matters are addressed by the probate process in the state in which the deceased person lived. Probate is the legal process of administering a deceased personâs estate. A decedentâs probate estate consists of assets left owned by the decedent in his or her name alone. Before any beneficiary or heir of a deceased person can receive property that belonged to the deceased person, the estate must be properly administered and all debts of the estate must be cleared.
As a general rule, the administration of an estate or trust after an individual has died requires the fiduciary to address certain routine issues and follow several standard steps to distribute the decedent's assets in accordance with his or her wishes.