A life estate deed is an easy and inexpensive way to protect your primary residence from being subject to Medicaid Estate Recovery upon your death. Per prior articles, your real estate is not a ...

Q: I own a home that my sister and her husband live in, and I claim the homestead exemption on my primary residence. I was told by a real estate title expert that if I sign a revocable life estate ...

What Is a Life Estate? Life estates are most commonly used with real estate and are created by the owner of the property. If you own your home, you are considered the life estate tenant. As the life ...

Q: I have a question about a property deed. We are getting up there in age, and we are trying to put everything in order for our kids. Is it better to have a Lady Bird deed or a life estate on our ...

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 ...

1) the property owner (grantor) retains life estate while granting to someone else (grantee) the remainder interest, and 2) the grantor retains the legal right to rescind the remainder interest to ...

Enhanced life estate deeds, affectionately nicknamed Lady Bird deeds, can be an effective tool in real estate to transfer ownership of real property upon death. They got their nickname when President ...