Probate

The title company won’t issue title insurance on your sale? Need to probate a property? There are inexpensive options.

We also can help you settle any probate issues you may have when you attempt to sell your property.

Pathways prepares a wide variety of personal documents including Deeds of all kinds, including other states and counties, POAs, Probates, Guardianships, Conservatorships, Trusts, Wills, Beneficiary Designation Administrative Suppport, Divorce, civil cases. In many cases, our services can provide you with an affordable alternative to an attorney for simple matters.

Discover the meeting point of legal document expertise and compassion with Pathways Paralegal. We extend our renowned legal document preparation knowledge towards helping individuals in Tucson, Marana, Oro Valley, Green Valley, Phoenix, Mesa, and Chandler, Arizona achieve the probate services they need to navigate probate court without an attorney.

Navigating Your Probate Options

When it comes to probate, you have three options. You may hire an attorney, which can result in a highly expensive venture, you can handle matters yourself at the risk of overlooking detrimental components in the probate process, or you can streamline and simplify your probate legal processes with complete legal document preparation of your probate case from start to finish by hiring our team, certified by the Supreme Court of Arizona.

Dedicated Probate Services

Pathways Paralegal takes pride in our comprehensive approach to probate services. While we cannot legally represent you, we handle just about every other facet of the probate process, ensuring an organized and efficient process. We prepare, file, and process all of your probate documents from start to finish. We will secure Letters of Testamentary, serve notice to all involved parties, and file the proper documents to distribute property and close the estate.

Obtaining Letters of Testamentary or Letters of Appointment

For those who have been informed that they must provide Letters of Testamentary or Letters of Appointment to confirm their authority to conduct business for the estate, we have you covered. We will obtain your Letters of Testamentary and prepare the proper documents to transfer property from the decedent to the heirs in accordance with their Last Will and Testament or the laws of intestate succession.

Experience a Personalized Five-Step Probate Process

The probate process involves five steps. These steps include, opening probate, publishing notice, preparing inventory of assets and debts, distribution of property, and closing the estate. When you choose Pathways Paralegal for your probate services, you can anticipate a five-step process completed with the utmost diligence, personalization, and professionalism. Our documents are not fill-in-the-blank forms or checklists. We provide highly customized documents that uniquely pertain to your case, eliminating any extraneous information that does not apply to you. Furthermore, our documents are made on pleading paper, the same paper used by an attorney.

1. Open Probate

The first step in the probate process is to open probate. This involves gathering the right information and beginning the preparation of probate documents, ensuring all involved parties receive copies in accordance with Arizona Probate Code. Each document is prepared in duplicate. The original copies are filed with the court and the second set is for you to keep once they have been date stamped. The documents required to open probate include:

Application for informal appointment of personal representative
General orders to personal representative
Acceptance of appointment of personal representative
Notice of appointment of personal representative
Letters of Appointment of Personal representative
Renunciation of right of appointment of personal representative
Waivers of Bond
Verified statement

2. Publishing Notice

The probate process requires publishing a notice in the newspaper. Our experts will handle publishing notice on your behalf and provide the court with an affidavit as proof of publication. In addition, we will provide all involved parties a notice of informal appointment. The documents we prepare during this phase of probate include:

Proof of mailing notice of informal appointment
Notice to creditors for publishing
Noticed to creditors for mailing
Proof of mailing notice to creditors
Affidavit of publication of notice to creditors

3. Inventory of Assets and Debts

The third step in the probate process involves taking inventory of the assets and debts of the estate. During this part of the process, we prepare the Inventory and Appraisement document on your behalf. This is one of the most instrumental components in the probate process, as any error or missed step has the potential to cause significant delays in finalizing your probate case.

4. Property Distribution

Four months from the initial publication date, the property distribution of the estate may begin, so long as there are no creditors making a claim on the estate. Without creditor claims, we will move on to preparing and filing the Instruments of Distribution and prepare and file the Deed of Distribution, establishing record with the Recorder’s office.

5. Closing The Estate

Once the above-mentioned steps have been satisfied and all required legal documentation has been provided, it will be time to close the estate. The judge will sign the closing documents one year from the date that we lodge the closing statement and a Certificate of Registrar will be sent to you by mail. This document releases you from your duties as Personal Representative and signals the conclusion of probate. During the closing of probate, our experts will handle several documents on your behalf, including:

Closing statement
Application for
Certificate of Registrar
Certificate of Registrar

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Is your legal matter too simple to justify the expense of hiring an attorney?

Pathway’s originator, Alison Torba, CP, AZCLDP, pioneered, and systematized a foreclosure prevention program as a nonprofit professional during the real estate market crash. She was promoted to Foreclosure Program Coordinator for Southern Arizona from Housing Counselor as a nonprofit professional within six months, when she promptly Initiated and obtained a successful $70,000 for foreclosure prevention funds from the Arizona Department of Housing in May 2010.

Ms. Torba was chosen as the most outstanding professional in housing foreclosure prevention community and invited to present strategies to staff of 70 people at Pima County One Stop Services. Ms. Torba’s professional excellence led her to self employment where she can effectively help working people navigate their financial lives. Additionally, she holds a State of Arizona Real Estate License.

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