Judgments of Dissolution in Oregon are required to recite the terms of ORS 107.159, which states the court shall include in its order a provision requiring that neither parent may move to a residence more than 60 miles further distant from the other parent without giving the other parent reas
When your Judgment of Dissolution (which used to be called a divorce decree) is final, signed by a judge, and entered into the record, people often think that everything is done.
Often this is not the case.
People are often anxious to avoid estate taxes when they pass on.
Federal estate taxes are no longer a problem for most people, since there is no federal estate tax unless the estate is over $11.2 million dollars.
At one time not too long ago, federal estate taxes (death taxes) started at $600,000.
Many people have or had the potential to have to pay estate taxes if they had savings, retirement accounts, and/or a house, when estate tax was due on amounts over $600,000.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that federal estate taxes are not a worry for most people unless they have (or control, or have given away) well over eleven million dollars ($11,200,000 to be precise).
Affidavits of Heirship can be used to transfer assets of some kinds when the owner is dead, and there is not going to be a probate or a small estate proceeding.
If no probate or small estate affidavit will be filed, sometimes a car owned by someone who has died can be transferred to the heirs at law by an Affidavit of Heirship available at the DMV.
In many situations, there is little benefit in a race to the courthouse. Sometimes, however, it can make quite a difference who becomes the Personal Representative (executor) in a probate.
In many situations, there is little benefit in a race to the courthouse. Sometimes it can make quite a difference what the status quo is when a divorce begins however. Who lives where, and where the children live, and the like can be important factors to freeze in time with court filings in
It is not uncommon for people to falsely claim to be residents of Oregon.
This has nothing to do with one’s legal status in the USA.