noun, plural yeomen. 1. a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy. 2. British. a farmer who cultivates his own land. 3. History/Historical. one of a class of lesser freeholders, below the gentry, who cultivated their own land, early admitted in England to political rights.
Ancillary Probate. An ancillary probate is a proceeding when a person dies with property in. more than one state or dies in one state with property in another. Our. office can help in all ancillary probate situations.
In basic terms, probate is the legal term that is used in the process to distribute a decedentâs assets to its proper beneficiary, heir, and transferring title to its rightful heir by properly paying decedentâs debts and taxes which we also call settling an estate.