North Carolina has no transfer-on-death deed for real estate. A 2023 bill to create one died in committee. Here is what actually keeps a house out of probate.

When a North Carolina settlor dies the trust terms are set, and the successor trustee administers under Chapter 36C, outside probate but not beyond creditors.

North Carolina sets no general deadline to open an estate. Windows at 30, 60, and 90 days and a two-year limit decide who may act and what a will can pass.

North Carolina changed this on October 1, 2025. A deceased member's estate now holds information rights and dissolution standing, but never management control.

An adjudication of incompetence ends LLC membership in North Carolina under G.S. 57D-3-02(a)(2), the same statutory event as death. Rights pass to a guardian.

A North Carolina operating agreement can expressly waive an estate's standing to seek dissolution. Information rights differ, and one point remains unsettled.

Since October 1, 2025, a deceased LLC member's estate holds standing to seek judicial dissolution in North Carolina, unless the operating agreement waived it.

Since October 1, 2025, a deceased LLC member's estate holds information rights under G.S. 57D-3-04. Here is what it covers and how a valid demand is made.

When the only member of a North Carolina LLC dies, the company dissolves on the 90th day unless a new member is admitted first. Here is how that window works.

A trust treated in its entirety as a grantor trust files no North Carolina return. For other trusts, a beneficiary living in the state is not by itself enough for North Carolina to tax undistributed income. What usually decides it is where the trustee sits and where the trust is administered.

A North Carolina revocable trust owns your house only after a deed to the trustee is recorded. What the deed costs, and what it does to the entireties ownership.

Learn when qualifying surviving spouse status applies, who meets the dependent-child test, and how 2026 federal and North Carolina tax rules differ.

A surviving spouse in North Carolina has two years from the date of death to sell the family home and still exclude up to $500,000 of gain from federal tax.

What probate actually involves under North Carolina law: the process, the timeline, the costs, the small estate alternatives, and how NC compares to other states.

A decade-by-decade estate planning checklist from your 20s through your 80s, anchored to North Carolina law and the 2026 federal estate tax rules.

In North Carolina, you generally cannot fully disinherit your spouse. A surviving spouse can claim an elective share of 15 to 50 percent of your assets.

North Carolina does not let you create a will online. A new 2026 law lets your attorney store your signed paper will electronically so it cannot be lost.

Should you tell your children about their inheritance, and how much? A look at the transparency and privacy approaches and how to handle the conversation.

Moving to North Carolina from another state? Your out-of-state will is usually still valid, but several documents need a NC review. Here is what to check.

Moved to North Carolina from a community property state? Your community property does not lose its character at the border. Here is what changes and why.