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In Wisconsin, you can use an Affidavit if the decedent's solely owned property owned in Wisconsin is worth $50,000 or less.
There's a summary procedure available if the value of the estate, less mortgages and encumbrances, is $50,000 or less and decedent is survived by spouse, domestic partner, or minor children. Also available if value of the estate, less mortgages and encumbrances, does not exceed costs, expenses, allowances, and claims.
Wisconsin, like most states, does not impose an estate or inheritance tax. Only a few states do.
The minimum wage in Wisconsin is the same as the federal minimum wage: $7.25 an hour.
The minimum wage in Brown County is $7.25 an hour, the state minimum wage. Wisconsin law prohibits city and county governments from adopting a local minimum wage that's higher than the state minimum wage.
In Wisconsin, your employer may pay you a minimum wage of $2.33 an hour, as long as you earn enough in tips to bring your total hourly pay up to the full minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. If you don’t earn enough in tips to bring your compensation to the full minimum wage, your employer must make up the difference.
Yes. Federal exemptions are available.
Property you occupy or intend to occupy to $75,000; sale proceeds exempt for 2 years if you intend to purchase another home (husband & wife's exemption may double)
Motor vehicles to $5,000 (husband & wife may double; unused portion of $12,000 personal property exemption may be added)
Wisconsin is divided into 2 federal districts with main cities in
In Wisconsin, you can receive unemployment benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks under state law.