Ido Stern, Author at Ido Stern

Most people who have planned their estates do not expect an heir to cheat another heir out of an inheritance. Unfortunately, in...

Losing a parent or loved one can be a traumatic, heart-wrenching experience. On top of the emotional stress, you may have the...

People are cheated out of an inheritance more often than you might suspect. It can happen while your loved one is still...

When you have been named personal representative of a deceased person’s estate, you have a fiduciary duty to act in the beneficiaries’...

Are you a beneficiary of a deceased loved one’s estate? Has someone else been named as trustee, executor, or personal representative? That...

Fiduciary duty is the strictest duty under the U.S. legal system. A fiduciary is an individual in whom someone has placed the...

The personal representative (PR) or trustee of an estate has a fiduciary duty to the beneficiaries. He or she has a duty...

More often than not in estate planning, parents leave their property and assets to their children and name one child as executor...

If you are the beneficiary of a trust or estate, you need to know what fiduciary duty is. It is a legal...

Anyone who has brothers or sisters knows about sibling rivalry. Siblings fight over toys as small children and compete for attention and...