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.
Widows, or surviving spouses, have certain rights concerning the management of a deceased spouse's estate. A widow may be the first choice as personal representative, unless her deceased spouse named someone else as executor in his will.Because probate courts place importance on honoring a testator's last wishes, a named executor in a will has priority over a surviving spouse.lthough other family members may petition a probate court for appointment as personal representative, the surviving spouse has priority. In other words, if the surviving spouse wishes to take on the role of estate administrator, all other family members' petitions take a back seat.