Houston Chronicle: New Transfer on Death Deed is now available online for free
AOL: Unlock the Power of a Transfer on Death Deed: How It Works
Unlock the Power of a Transfer on Death Deed: How It Works
Yahoo: All Delaware counties to accept Transfer on Death deeds come December. What to know
All Delaware counties to accept Transfer on Death deeds come December. What to know
Delaware homeowners now have a new way to pass on real estate after death without going through probate, following the statewide rollout of transfer-on-death deeds. Under the Delaware Transfer on ...
I checked Garner's Modern American Usage; although BG doesn't address free of vs. free from, he writes that the distinction between freedom of and freedom from is that the former indicates the "possession of a right" (freedom of speech) and the latter "protection from a wrong" (freedom from oppression). So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which ...
Free ride dates back to 1880, while free loader is a more recent construction “freeloader (n.) also free-loader, by 1939, from free (adj.) + agent noun from load (v.)As a verb, freeload is attested by 1967 and probably is a back-formation from this”
I don't think there's any difference in meaning, although "free of charges" is much less common than "free of charge". Regarding your second question about context: given that English normally likes to adopt the shortest phrasing possible, the longer form "free of charge" can be used as a means of drawing attention to the lack of demand for ...