Carissa Brown

Carissa W. Brown is an associate in the Trusts and Estates group at Lindquist & Vennum P.L.L.P., where she assists clients with the preparation of wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives. Carissa also advises clients on estate and gift tax planning and on various estate and probate administration issues. Carissa can be contacted at [email protected].

What is probate and do you need to avoid it?


May 2, 2012
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My clients frequently claim that their number one goal in establishing an estate plan is to “avoid probate.” Upon further discussion, I discover that most have a number of misconceptions regarding what probate actually is. Probate Probate is, quite simply, the legal process by which assets owned by a decedent are transferred to the rightful […]