This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Stevens with us in California.

Hi, Stephen.

How are you?

Good.

How you doing, Dave?

Better than I deserve.

What's up?

It's an honor to get to talk to you guys today.

My wife and I recently inherited an estate from a good friend of ours.

He was an elderly man that we took care of for about 13 years, and he recently passed.

And we're just nervous to navigate the probate process and the county office that looked over the will it's a

handwritten will said that we shouldn't need an attorney but we don't know if we

should get one anyways or how to navigate it okay what are what is the

size of the estate how much money is it worth?

Well, his bank account was not, I was a beneficiary, so they said that that stays out of probate.

Correct.

So they just wrote me a check for that.

There is a mortgage on the home of about $150,000 still.

It's worth probably $350,000, and then he's got a car that's worth somewhere around 10,000 and just miscellaneous things other than that.

Okay. Um, so you took the, uh, the handwritten will to the county, probate department or probateate office? The Public Affairs Office is who wanted it.

We haven't submitted the probate paperwork yet.

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