What Is a Life Estate and How Does It Work?

July 13, 2022
Bill O’Leary, Esq.
Estate Planning, Lady Bird Deed, Life Estate

What Is a Life Estate and How Does It Work? If you own a home, passing that property on to someone else — whether it’s a spouse, your children or someone else — requires planning ahead. That’s where a life…

March 4, 2021
Bill O’Leary, Esq.
Advanced Directives, Advanced Medical Directives, Agent, Asset Protection, Beneficiary Designations, Celebrity Estates, Elder Care, Elder Law, Estate Plan, Estate Planning, Executor, Healthcare Power of Attorney, Heirs, Inheritance, Last Will and Testament, Legacy, Life Estate, Living Will, Long-Term Care Planning, News, Personal Representative, Power of Attorney, Probate, Probate and Estate/Trust Administration, Real Property, Retirement Accounts, Succession Planning, Successor Trustee, Trustee, Trusts, Will, Will Contest

The widow of car-dealership magnate Ray Brandt filed court papers to evict her family from their Old Metairie compound on Tuesday, the latest escalation of a bitter family battle over control of the massive estate that Brandt left behind when he died in late 2019.