Don’t Give Your Adult Kids Your House

Liz Weston, NerdWallet.com
Fri, 04/03/2020 - 12:10pm

Adding an adult child to your house deed, or giving them the home outright, might seem like a smart thing to do. It usually isn’t. Transferring your house to your kids while you’re alive may avoid probate, the court process that otherwise follows death. But gifting a home also can result in a big, unnecessary... Liz Weston is a writer at NerdWallet.

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