Probate Completed, Where Are the Balloons?
For the past 12 to 18 months, possibly longer, you the Personal Representative in a Wisconsin probate have gathered papers, filed taxes, written checks, emptied the fridge, sold the car, distributed the family photographs, written more checks, and have your signature notarized more times than you can recall. And now the day is here, the day you file the FINAL papers to close the estate. The last bill to the lawyer is paid, you have free time in your calendar once again. Things settle down into a new routine, the routine after the loss of a loved one, the routine after the work of the probate, and it feels like something is missing. You did it -- yet those filed court papers just slide off into an abyss. Will you get a mailing from the court, some sort of official notice that you completed this marathon of a task? If you are a Personal Representative in a Wisconsin probate the answer is simple, no. There is no fan fare, no balloon drop, no confetti falling...