{"id":10090,"date":"2019-05-30T06:49:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T11:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2019-05-30T06:49:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T11:49:50","slug":"did-they-wait-to-settle-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/30\/did-they-wait-to-settle-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Did They Wait to Settle Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If it takes years for a relative&#8217;s estate to be finally settled, it can be tempting to think that the reason was because there was a legal wrangling over the estate. While sometimes that is the case, it is also possible that the relative&#8217;s surviving spouse had a lifetime interest in the property or was given a life estate by the deceased relative. It&#8217;s also possible that if there were minor heirs, the other heirs waited to finally settle the estate until all the heirs were legally old enough to execute documents. That&#8217;s often easier than going through the process of appointing a guardian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are reasons why an estate could be drawn out over some time besides family drama. Although family drama is a frequent reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it takes years for a relative&#8217;s estate to be finally settled, it can be tempting to think that the reason was because there was a legal wrangling over the estate. While sometimes that is the case, it is also possible that the relative&#8217;s surviving spouse had a lifetime interest in the property or was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}