Estate Settlement Costs


Definition of "Estate settlement costs"

Steve Holcomb
  Americom Realty

Expenses connected with resolving an estate to include medical expenditures, funeral expenditures, probate expenditures, estate taxes, legal fees, and other administrative expenditures.


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