Lady bird deeds automatically transfer your property to your beneficiaries without going through probate, but they're available in only five states. Many, or all, of the products featured on this ...

A: Deeds that create an enhanced life estate, which are often called “Lady Bird Deeds,” are becoming increasingly popular estate planning tools. When a life estate is created, a property owne ...

A lady bird deed, or an enhanced life estate deed, allows a homeowner to automatically transfer their home to their beneficiaries without going through probate. As probate can be an expensive ...

Dear Mr. Premack: If a married couple signed a lady bird deed and one of them dies, can the surviving spouse revoke the original lady bird deed that gives the house to the children? And can a lady ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Your house might be your single most valuable financial asset. So you want to make sure you can give it to those you love when you die, without giving up the farm.

“In reality, the first Lady Bird deed was drafted by Florida attorney Jerome Ira Solkoff around 1982, nearly ten years after the death of President Johnson. In his elder law book and lecture ...

Q: I’ve been researching estate planning and I came across Lady Bird deeds. They appear to be the same as Transfer on Death deeds. Is there any difference between the two and is one preferable ...

The Lady Bird Deed works in Florida like it would in any other state that recognizes the estate planning tool. When you execute the deed in Florida, you receive a life estate in the property ...

She has lived with a person for over 20 years and signed a lady bird estate deed naming her as a beneficiary with the property going to my two brothers and myself after the woman passes away.

The deed first became available in Texas and was named after Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The First Lady herself never used this estate planning strategy. Instead, her ...