As you make your estate plans, if you are looking to avoid probate in Alabama, the most effective options will be to establish a living trust, hold major assets in joint tenancy, and add a ...

There are plenty of local races on next month’s ballot, including every county’s probate judge position. But, do voters know the qualifications for those spots? Probate courts in the 67 Alabama ...

LIMESTONE COUNTY, AL (WAFF) - The Limestone County Probate Judge weighed in Monday on when he'll issue same sex marriage licenses, and clears up some confusion on the legal part of the marriage ban ...

Washington County Probate Judge Nick Williams on Wednesday afternoon asked the Alabama Supreme Court for an order that will protect him and others who refuse, based on their religious beliefs, to ...

Roy Moore says state probate judges remain under a court order to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite US supreme court’s June decision Alabama chief justice Roy Moore on Wednesday ...

Reporting from Atlanta — Roy Moore, the conservative Alabama chief justice who ordered probate judges across the state not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was ousted from his position ...

Alabama is set Monday to become the 37th state where gays can legally wed, prompting one couple to pitch a tent outside a courthouse to wait even as the state's chief justice was making an 11th hour ...

A federal judge in Alabama on Thursday instructed a probate judge in Mobile County to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, sending a strong signal to other judges in other counties that they, ...

The chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court has ordered the state's probate judges not to issue marriage license to same-sex couples — despite a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last year that ...