Q: What happens if you and your wife own a home through a quitclaim deed, and the spouse dies? We live in Maine. A: A quitclaim deed transfers any interest that the seller owns in a property to the ...

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Kim Porter began her career as a writer and an editor focusing on personal finance in 2010. Since then, her work has been published everywhere from Forbes Advisor to U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, ...