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Work out what help you need
Small tools that run in your browser. They store nothing and send nothing. They give general information so you arrive at a lawyer's office with better questions.
Draft for human review. This was prepared by AI research and no person has reviewed it yet. Confirm anything important at the source.
Someone died
Probate path finder
Nine questions about an estate. See which routes the Minnesota statutes describe: no probate, small-estate affidavit, informal, or formal. Every figure is quoted and linked.
Planning ahead
Will or trust
What the statutes say about each, side by side, plus a checklist that builds the questions to raise with an attorney. It does not tell you which to choose.
Choosing a lawyer
Fee decoder and first-meeting checklist
How to read fee language, what to ask, and a grid for comparing the quotes you collect. Built from what 20 firm websites do and do not publish.
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