The court website will tell you what forms to file. It will show you the steps. The sequence. The structure. If you follow it carefully, you can get through the process. What it won’t tell you is what this actually feels like. Because the hardest part of probate in Wayne County isn’t the paperwork. It’s everything happening around it at the same time. The Role Nobody Really Explains On paper, the role is simple. You’re the personal…
I’ve been involved in real estate in Detroit for a long time. Long enough that I’ve seen just about every situation you can imagine around inherited houses. On paper, the process sounds simple. Someone passes away. The family inherits the home. The house gets sold and the proceeds are split. That’s the version you’ll read in most articles. The reality is usually very different. Over the years I’ve walked through hundreds of inherited properties across…