Experienced Probate & Estate Administration Guidance
When a loved one passes away, handling the legal and financial responsibilities of an estate can feel complicated. From filing probate documents and managing assets to addressing creditors, taxes, and beneficiary distributions, every estate presents its own challenges.
Hoffman & Associates provides experienced probate and estate administration guidance for individuals and families in Buckhead and throughout Atlanta, Georgia.
Our attorneys help executors, administrators, trustees, beneficiaries, and families understand the probate process and move forward with confidence.
Probate Services in Buckhead, Atlanta
Our probate attorneys can assist with:
- Probate of wills
- Estate administration
- Probate without a will
- Executor and administrator responsibilities
- Identifying heirs and beneficiaries
- Estate asset administration
- Creditor claims
- Estate and fiduciary tax matters
- Trust administration
- Business interests within an estate
- Beneficiary and heir disputes
- Complex and high-value estates
Whether the estate is straightforward or involves substantial wealth, businesses, trusts, or complicated family circumstances, we can help.
What Happens During Probate in Georgia?
Probate is the legal process used to administer certain assets after a person’s death.
Depending on the estate, the process may involve submitting a will to the appropriate probate court, appointing a personal representative, identifying and protecting assets, addressing valid debts and expenses, handling applicable tax matters, and distributing remaining property to beneficiaries or heirs.
Not every asset necessarily passes through probate. Trust assets, certain jointly owned property, and accounts with valid beneficiary designations may transfer outside the probate estate.
Probate When There Is No Will
If someone dies without a valid will in Georgia, they are considered to have died intestate.
Georgia law generally determines who inherits probate property, and the probate court may appoint an administrator to handle the estate.
Intestate estates can become complicated when there are multiple heirs, blended families, real estate, business interests, or disagreements about how the estate should be administered.
