Odds and Ends

This personal reflection explores the bittersweet emotions and changing family relationships that follow sending the last child to college and entering an empty nest.

This article describes a holiday phishing scam and explains four common scam signs, ways to avoid fraud, and where to report attempted scams.

This article explains how to detect and prevent credit card fraud by reviewing statements, reporting unauthorized charges, setting transaction alerts, and shopping carefully online.

Identifies the people who may control funeral arrangements in Texas when no written designation exists, the statutory order of priority, and the deadlines for acting.

Explains how Social Security impersonation scams use threats, spoofed caller ID, and payment demands, and identifies steps to avoid, report, and recover from fraud.

A holiday message from Rania Combs that reflects on Ralph Waldo Emerson's definition of success and offers seasonal wishes to readers.

A Texas appellate case held that checking a joint account’s survivorship box did not create survivorship rights because the signature card lacked language required by the Texas Estates Code.

The article explains how to report suspected abuse, neglect, or exploitation of an elderly or disabled adult to Texas Adult Protective Services and what an investigation may involve.

A Texas attorney shares a holiday message about the love, hopes, worries, and grief that unite families across cultures, nationalities, and religions.

In a year-end 2016 holiday message, Rania reflects on gratitude for her family and safety while wishing for peace, healing, friendship, and an end to conflict.