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Articles and guides to help you understand your options for protecting your family and your assets in Texas and North Carolina.
Describes pandemic-era approaches to signing Texas estate-planning documents and discusses witness, notarization, holographic-Will, trust, and power-of-attorney considerations.
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An archived COVID-19 post that encourages people to review their Will, powers of attorney, health care agents, and document storage during a health emergency.
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Explains how Social Security impersonation scams use threats, spoofed caller ID, and payment demands, and identifies steps to avoid, report, and recover from fraud.
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Discusses how placing a Texas homestead in a revocable trust can affect the article's stated Medicaid-resource treatment and compares probate-avoidance alternatives such as a transfer-on-death or Lady Bird deed.
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Explains common grounds for contesting a Texas Will, including improper execution, lack of testamentary capacity, undue influence, and fraudulent inducement, as well as who may have standing.
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A holiday message from Rania Combs that reflects on Ralph Waldo Emerson's definition of success and offers seasonal wishes to readers.
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Explains that a Texas court generally gives substantial effect to a parent's guardian designation, but may reject the nominee if the person is disqualified, unwilling, or not in the child's best interests.
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Explains why principal distributed from a trust is generally separate property in Texas, while the characterization of trust income can depend on the beneficiary's right to demand it and trustee discretion.
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Explains that the absence of a Texas Directive to Physicians does not automatically prevent a life-support decision, and identifies the agents or relatives the article lists as potential decision-makers.
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Explains how an estate plan can provide for pets after incapacity or death by naming caregivers and alternates, leaving funds for care, or creating a Texas pet trust.
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